Curator Hamlets Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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Fruit for this wine is sourced from throughout the Barossa Valley. Fermentation in open top tanks with hand plunging two or three times each day for 8 to 10 days. Basket pressing, blending and then transferred to older American and French oak for a year. Much to like here. Crimson red. The nose is a rather lovely rich, earthy style with dark berries and red fruits mixing. A wine full of flavour showing chocolate, coffee grinds, cocoa powder, black fruits, bay leaves and licorice. Big and powerful, there is good concentration throughout and decent length plus very fine tannins. Enjoy this over the next four 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.
