D’Arenberg Footbolt Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The team keep the batches for this wine separate until blending. Traditional foot treading is used 2/3rds of the way through fermentation, followed by basket pressing. Maturation is in a mix of new and older French and American oak barriques. The colour here is a vibrant crimson magenta, made in an earthy style with notes of plums, red fruits, bay leaves, chocolate, animal fur and cloves. The wine is of medium length with juicy acidity running the length. It provides attractive drinking and lingers pleasantly with fine, satiny tannins on the finish. Easy drinking, this is a crowd pleaser and will remain so for the next six to ten 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.
