Golden Amrita Sunshine Hill Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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This is surely one of the bargains of the Barossa. The fruit is sourced from two vineyards – one Greenock and one Moppa – and aged discretely in older American oak. It doesn’t hurt that this is from one of the region’s great vintages. An inky maroon hue, the nose does exhibit plenty of quality oak but it is deftly handled and integrating well. It is joined by notes of chocolate, mocha, cloves, coffee grinds, licorice and soy. This is very well crafted and we have balance, a plushness running throughout, fine tannins and good acidity. Exciting stuff and it should remain so for a good eight to ten years. It really is fabulous 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.
