Gundog Estate Hilltops Shiraz No. 1 2024
- 93
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Also from the superb 2024 vintage, this is a blend from various vineyards from the Hilltops, providing for a richer style. A little Moppity Shiraz has been included. Crimson/magenta, the nose reveals notes of truffles and warm earth, rose petals and kirsch, licorice, blackberries, beef stock and cloves. This is slightly more austere and likely more long-lived than the No 2. It finishes with fine powdery tannins. The wine has good balance and length and is surely going to provide pleasure for the next ten to twelve years.
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.
