Dowie Doole The Banker Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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From the Tatachilla sub-region in McLaren Vale, the colour here is an opaque maroon. A wine of concentration, power and balance. Offers the richness that we find with good McLaren Vale Shiraz. The flavours weave through molten chocolate, dry herbs, cassis, coffee beans, bay leaves and licorice. Taut and poised, there is both good focus and intensity here. That intensity is maintained for the full journey. A really impressive McLaren Vale Shiraz to enjoy over the next ten to twelve 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.
