Crabtree Estate Watervale Grenache Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $32
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The fruit here is sourced from two estate blocks – the Shiraz from a cooler one and the Grenache from the warmer western block. A dark maroon colour here. The nose exhibits notes of chocolate, black cherries, licorice, soy, blackberries and a hint of mulberries. This is ripe and rich, deeply flavoured. There are fine silky tannins with very good length. Utterly delicious, this is a cracking wine, to be enjoyed over the next six to ten years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
