Dandelion Vineyards Lionheart of the Barossa Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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Much of the fruit for this stellar value Barossa Shiraz comes from vines more than a century old. Hand harvesting, gentle crushing and a natural fermentation, before a year and a half in French oak barriques, some new but mostly older. The wine is named after Carl Lindner, a lifetime champion of Barossa’s old vines – their Lionheart. A lovely chocolatey Barossa Shiraz, which is terrific value. Notes of cocoa powder, coffee beans, mocha and black fruits. A supple texture, with soft, gentle tannins on the finish. There is good intensity of flavour right through the wine woth notes of aniseed emerging on the finish. Enjoy this any time over the next half dozen 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.
