Greenock Creek Apricot Block Shiraz 2019
- 96
- $45
- Drink by: 2021-2041
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The Apricot Block is located in the Marananga sub-region of the Barossa. Before its transformation into a vineyard, the site was an apricot orchard. Whether it is the power of suggestion or a collision with reality, one does wonder if there is not just a hint of stone fruit found in the aromas. Almost as though there is a dollop of Viognier. For me, a perennial favourite. It would be fair to assume the 2018, a terrific vintage in the Barossa, might be the better wine, but I am not certain it is. A great effort by the winemaking team.
Inky black with delightful aromas of chocolate, florals, spices, black cherries and cloves. There is serious intensity here and the palate is seamless and concentrated. Very fine, satiny tannins but the key is the immaculate balance. The wine maintains its intensity all throughout a very long finish. This has twenty years ahead of it, but is pretty special now. A cracker.
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.
