Gundog Estate Hunter’s Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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From old vineyards, specifically Will’s Hill and Tinkler’s, the wine spent a year maturing in French oak puncheons. Blood red in colour, this is soft, earthy and generous. We have touches of red fruits, cherries and mushrooms. Attractive and youthful, there are ever-so-silky tannins with good length and a lingering finish. A mid-weight style which could do with a fraction more intensity on the finish, but that may come with time and this has plenty of time ahead of it.
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.
