Elderton Ode To Lorraine Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Merlot 2024
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- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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A fine tribute from the Ashmead boys to their mother, Lorraine, one of the co-founders of the Estate. The wine is a blend of 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 46% Shiraz, with the remaining 6% being Merlot. The fruit is sourced from Nuriootpa, from vines up to 130 years in age, and the wine spends twenty-two months in French puncheons for maturation. Quite a dark but vibrant red, the nose weaves through aromas of mushrooms, aniseed, coffee grinds, wild raspberries, cloves, black fruits and smoked meats. The wine has a really appealing savoriness, is of medium length with good focus and a lingering finish, right through to the sleek tannins. Enjoy this over the next ten to fifteen years, longer if you have the patience.
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.
