Greenock Estate Museum Release Reserve Shiraz 2018
- 92
- $480
- Drink by: 2025-2037+
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Old vines from a single site with an extended period of maturation in French oak, plus plenty of time in bottle in the cellar, all contribute to this rich Barossa red. Under cork. A dark maroon hue with a deep, red rim, this is big and bold with lashings of chocolate. Still offers oodles of oak but integration is proceeding. Indeed, leaving it for four to five years before approaching it, and then drinking it over the following ten to twelve years would be a good plan. The wine does have a slight rural note to it with mushrooms, animal skins and licorice, as well as the chocolate and black fruits. The wine has good length, with a rather plush texture through to sleek and yet firm tannins, and is showing early complexity.
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.
