Curtis Terra Rossa Shiraz 2024
- 92
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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An early example of the quality of the recent 2024 vintage, this McLaren Vale Shiraz is a blood red hue, verging on the opaque. The nose gives us notes of bay leaves, raspberries, aniseed, warm earth, leather, chocolate, smoked meats, red fruits and soy. A little more savoury than some and all the more attractive because of it. There is also a hint of toastiness here. The wine is well balanced, of medium length and with fine tannins. For enjoying over the next three to five years – longer if one wished.
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.
