Gundog Estate Marksman’s Game Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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If anyone needed convincing that exciting things are happening in Canberra (I speak only of wine, of course), aside from the efforts of the usual suspects, look no further. The team have combined the best parcels they have from the region and given them sixteen months maturation in French oak puncheons, with 37% of them new. It is exciting stuff. A deep purple colour, the nose provides an array of flavours, with spices, bay leaves, dried herbs, cherries, plums, raspberries, milk chocolate and aniseed. All very much cool climate stuff, this is beautifully crafted with serious length. It maintains its intensity throughout, but it is also a wine of refinement and elegance. There are silky tannins and a finish which lingers. Love it. It should provide exquisite pleasure over the next ten to twelve years and should improve even further.
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.
