Golden Amrita Single Estate Shiraz 2020
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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Winemaker Kym Milne MW has made a selection from the best lots from their Greenock Vineyard from the 2020 vintage. He has dialed back the oak from past vintages, where it was almost all new American, to around 50% new and included some French oak. He has also reduced the alcohol a smidge, although it still sits at 14.5%. Under cork. The result remains a classic, full force Barossa Shiraz, although one with finesse. It is near black in colour, with notes of plums, cassis, blackberries and coffee beans. There is impressive extract here and serious intensity with excellent length. A powerful wine and yet one showing refinement, with bright acidity and cushiony tannins. Surely, a fifteen year proposition.
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.
