Curator Barossa Valley Grenache 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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The vines which provided the fruit for this superb Barossa Grenache come from a Seppeltsfield vineyard, planted in the early 1900s. The wine spent a year maturing in old French oak hogsheads. There is a small percentage of whole bunches used in the ferment. This is a wine of energy. A pale garnet, the nose reveals notes of strawberries, earth, leather, cherries and exotic spices. A classic BV Grenache and very typical. There is a silky palate here, with good acidity, satiny tannins and a lingering finish. For enjoying over the next five to six 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.
