Curator Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025--2033
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The fruit here is sourced from a range of plots from the estate Marananga vineyard. There are 10% whole bunches included in the ferment, which is with wild yeasts, before maturation for sixteen months in French oak, 15% of which was new. Under Diam. An inky black colour here with a maroon rim. The nose is redolent of ripe blackberries and black cherries with leather, chocolate, tar, smoked meats and bay leaves. The oak is integrating well and the wine has impressive length. A mid-weight, medium length style, perhaps a little broad, with a gentle fade. Supple texture with sleek tannins, the attractive flavours are surely the highlight. Enjoy this over the next six to eight 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.
