Gundog Estate Flintlock Game Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This is the Hilltops prestige release from the team, a superb cool climate red. It is a blend of the best they can source from the region (as it turned out, the fruit again came from the Freeman vineyards and those at Boorowa). It received sixteen months maturation in French oak puncheons, 25% new. This is the second release of this wine. Deep red, this is delightfully fresh with bay leaves, dried herbs, raspberries, soy and beef stock. Soft and seductive in texture, there are very fine tannins here and a line of acidity running the full length of the wine. Well structured, this is poised and offers a pleasing, lingering finish. It will drink beautifully for at least the next eight years and one can reasonably expect further improvement over that period.
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.
