Curtis Tiberius Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $500
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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The use of the squat bot is becoming a little more widespread and the team have employed it for their elite McLaren Vale Shiraz, again from that stellar year of 2021. Wasn’t the old saying – good things come in small packages? Certainly applies here. The grapes were fully destemmed before a thirty day ferment on skins followed by three years maturation in French oak hogsheads. Under Diam. An inky maroon hue, this is tight and concentrated in structure with aromas weaving through plums, exotic spices, mulberries, chocolate, smoked meats, a touch of vegemite and mocha. A juicy palate, satiny tannins, there is serious length here. The palate sees the emergence of notes of bergamot and tobacco leaves. It really does have a very long finish. This can be enjoyed over the next ten 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.
