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Greenock Estate Angas King Shiraz 2016

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Clare Valley Shiraz rarely receives the love and affection that it is surely due. The Angas King range reflects upon the qualities of Shiraz from a number of the better regions in South Australia and the Clare sits comfortably with them. The wine spent 18 months in French oak. Dark blood red in colour, there is dense fruit here with chocolate, olives, warm earth and more. Some oak influence assists in tying everything together. This has full power and concentration, as well as flavour, but it does offer a little more elegance than many with good balance. As we move to the palate, we see more blackberry and tobacco leaf notes emerge plus good focus. The intensity is maintained the full journey and right through to a very long finish. This has six to ten years plus ahead of it.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic