Elderton Barossa Shiraz 2024
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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This vintage sees the addition of fruit from the family’s new Mengler Vineyard in the Eden Valley, which now joins their traditional sources from the North Para River, Nuriootpa and across the Barossa Valley – the blend, specifically, is 36% Mengler, 30% Greenock, 19% Craneford and 15% Nuriootpa. Vine age is up to 128 years. Maturation was in older French and American oak puncheons for twenty months. Definitely a contender for best value red of the year, this is cracking value. Dark maroon, this is a delicious Barossa Valley Shiraz. The nose offers aromas weaving through chocolate, plums, mulberries, mocha, coffee beans, dried herbs and warm earth. Seamless and vibrant, there is excellent oak integration and very good length. The palate is all chocolate and mocha. Love it. Enjoy this over the next ten to fifteen years. Did I mention great buying?
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.
