Gundog Estate Canberra District Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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It is not unfair to suggest that if anyone mentions Shiraz and the Canberra region that Clonakilla immediately springs to mind, but there are a number of other producers also making superb examples, which are becoming better known every year. This is one of them. This is cool climate Shiraz at its best. After fermentation, the wine spends a year maturing in French oak puncheons. A very dark maroon colour here, the nose has entrancing aromas of plums, soy, spices, black fruits, well-handled oak, coffee grinds, hints of barbecued meats and beef stock. This is an appealing textural style of Shiraz, supple, and with good intensity through to a lingering finish which is more than littered with silky tannins. A ten year proposition.
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.
