Golden Amrita Lumenval Moppa Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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From their Moppa vineyard, this is the first release of this wine. There is a small percentage of whole bunches incorporated. Ageing is mostly in French oak with a large format barrel and a ceramic egg also part of the regime. The colour here is an opaque purple, while the perfumed nose offers chocolate, graphite, aniseed, coffee grinds, notes of espresso and well integrated oak. This is big and bold and the palate sees a move to more of those mocha flavours. The wine is ripe, concentrated and focused and we can see the emergence of some savoury aspects with cloves and warm earth. The wine has firm tannins and excellent length. Thoroughly enjoyable now, it will undoubtedly improve 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.
