Curtis Black Market Shiraz 2021
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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A fruit rich South Aussie Shiraz, purple/magenta in colour. The wine offers a powerful, even pungent aroma with mulberries and cloves, chocolate, black fruits, bay leaves and aniseed. Big and bold, the style is fruit forward although with deceptive tannins, quite abundant, backed by good acidity and appealing balance. A little more length, which should come in time, will lift the wine even further. Drink now and for 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.
