Grant Burge Filsell Shiraz 2024
- 95
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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Once seen as the Burge Shiraz which wasn’t Meshach, the Filsell has more than established a fine reputation for itself over the years and this is a fine vintage of the wine. The colour is a dark purple/bruised plum hue. It is powerful, intense and coiled, focused and muscular. We have notes of coffee beans, black jellybeans, cocoa powder, cold tea, truffles, aniseed, spices and chocolate. Deftly handled oak is present, though very much in a supporting role. A slightly savoury style, there is balance and length with a long finish, with sleek tannins evident. One of the very best in the range, this is excellent value. A twenty-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.
