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Gomersal GSM 2021

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Good value to be found in this Barossa version of the famous Rhone blend. The wine spent a year and a half in a mix of new and older French and American oak hogsheads. The blend is 47% Grenache, 43% Shiraz and 10% Mataro. A deep, inky maroon hue, the nose is seriously powerful with rich aromatics. There are notes of dark chocolate, cloves, leather, mocha, cherries, violets and blackberries. As we proceed to the palate, the flavours move more to blueberries and cocoa powder. There are fine tannins here and a soft, gently fading but lingering finish. There is a little oak, but it is simply part of the overall package. Attractive drinking now and over the next six to eight years.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic