Greenock Creek Fifteen Claims Shiraz 2021
- 97
- $120
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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From the stunning 2021 vintage in the Barossa, this is a single site Shiraz from the Moppa sub-region. This particular parcel is known by the team as “Ironstone” due to the soil profile, but is more technically, the Jaensch block. 1,000 bottles made. Under cork. An opaque blood red, there is an exquisite nose here. Gentle vanilla notes are melded with aromas of blueberries, chocolate, mocha, blackberries, coffee beans, soy, aniseed, plums and cocoa powder. A laser-like focus, there is immaculate balance here, with intensity is maintained for the full, very long journey. The wine finishes with the silkiest of tannins. It will handle the next twenty years with ease. This really is stunning stuff.
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.
