Duck Duck Bull Shiraz Wrattonbully 2022
- 92
- $24
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Lots to like with this brightly flavoured Shiraz from the Wrattonbully region. The colour is a vibrant maroon. The nose exhibits notes of black cherries, chocolate, coffee grinds, bay leaves, cranberries and herbs, leading to some emerging sour cherries on the finish of the palate. There are pleasing flavours here, a wine of medium length and fine tannins. Good promise here, with everything in place for further improvement over the next eight 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.
