Gioiello Estate Syrah 2019
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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A wine with a dark maroon hue, the nose offers chocolate, spices, cassis, dry herbs, cold tea, aniseed and black fruits. A delicious palate follows that is plush in texture, but there is also refinement and balance. With very good length and silky tannins, the chocolate and cherry notes dominate on the palate, offering much pleasure. Enjoy this over the next six to ten years. I like this a great deal and cracking value.
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.
