Gomersal Reserve Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $34
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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This is seriously good value. The wine spends ten days fermenting on skins before twenty-two months in a combination of new and older American oak hogsheads. The colour here is a near back maroon. The nose exhibits some delightful chocolate and blackberry notes. There is some serious oak evident here, appealingly toasty, with notes of black olives, tar, plums, mocha and cloves. This is dense, powerful and with abundant though very fine and silky tannins. A good line of acidity runs the length. Very long, this is a wine of real power and concentration and will provide pleasure for at least the next ten to fifteen 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.
