Gundog Indomitus Rutilus Shiraz Tempranillo Grenache Hilltops 2024
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- Drink by: 2026-2034
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With this wine, the team have been looking to step outside their comfort zone and explore what they can do with less common grapes. Well, perhaps less common than their usual suspects. All that said, there are few winemakers who push the envelope quite as much as these guys, so it will be fascinating to watch their progress in the coming years. The blend for this release is 57% Shiraz, 29% Tempranillo and 14% Grenache. The Shiraz came from a range of vineyards in the Hilltops region, but the Tempranillo and Grenache is solely from the Moppity Vineyard. Older oak was used with maturation for a period of sixteen months. 366 dozen made. Quite a bright magenta, this is an earthy, savoury style with notes of mushrooms, cold tea, bergamot, dried herbs, kirsch, fresh beetroot, aniseed, warm earth and soy evident. There is good intensity here, and decent length, through to slightly powdery tannins. An attractive style showing some refinement, to be enjoyed over the next four to eight 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.
