Dowie Doole DD Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Wines like this leave no question that Shiraz is divinely suited to the McLaren Vale region. This is from the Blewitt Springs and Tatachilla sub-regions and saw twenty months in a mix of French – 90% with 10% of that new – and American oak. Inky black maroon, we have notes of chocolate, mocha, spices, blackberries, coffee beans, licorice and bay leaves. Ripe, generous and well-structured, the wine offers seemingly endless flavour. A flicker of blueberries emerge on the palate complemented by fine acidity, silky tannins, a seductive texture and good length. Cracking value, enjoy this 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.
