Di Fabio Bush Vine Reserve Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Impressive stuff here. The wine enjoyed two years maturation in small French oak casks. Dark maroon, this is a lovely mature red wine with warm flavours. Time in the cellar has given it the chance to build some early complexity. There are notes of animal hides, bay leaves, mulberries, dried herbs, aniseed, leather, black fruits and cloves. On the palate the flavours turn very much towards chocolate, blackberries, licorice and hints of axle grease, in the most positive way. The wine is well balanced, seamless and exhibits very good length and still has a decade of providing pleasure ahead of it.
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.
