Curtis Cavaliere McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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A very fine McLaren Vale Shiraz from a superb vintage, drinking beautifully now but offering even more down the track. This is inky maroon in colour, with good oak integration well under way, providing vanillin notes. The nose also gives us blackcurrants, chocolate, cloves, aniseed, black fruits, mocha, plums and delicatessen meats with good focus. The palate is more refined and elegant than the nose might suggest and that works very well here. There is still plenty of power and concentration with firm tannins and excellent length so it should provide excellent drinking over the next eight to fifteen 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.
