Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz 2016
- 99
- $250
- Drink by: 2021-2050
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The jewel in the crown. The wine you would expect to step up and shine brightest and it lets no one down. A stunningly impressive Barossa Shiraz. Again, vines exceeding 120 years of age only this time, the wine sits in American and not French oak. 15.5% alcohol, normally a sign for caution, but this wine is so immaculately balanced that you’d never guess.
The colour is black as coal. Notes of plums and prunes, blackberries and chocolate, dried fruits and figs. This is rich, ripe, big, bold and intense. There is real power here. A flick of acidity but as with everything to do with this beautiful blockbuster, it is perfectly balanced. It is that balance which is the key to its greatness and the potential it has to outlive us all. The finish is incredibly long. Outside of a great PX sherry or the brilliant Rutherglen muscats, hard to think what matches it for length on the finish or the intensity it holds. This one might actually be for your great-grandchildren.
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.
