Hare’s Chase Marananga Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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From the estate vineyard in the highly regarded Marananga sub-region of the Barossa, fermentation is in open top fermenters with heading down boards, the aim being to maximise the extraction of colour, tannins and flavour. The colour here has certainly been ‘maximised’, a near black/purple. The nose offers those intoxicating notes we find in topnotch Barossa Shiraz, with blackberries, chocolate, mocha, coffee beans, a little graphite and a hint, in the most positive manner, of axle grease. Good oak integration here. A supple texture combined with a seamless structure, very fine tannins, good focus, bright if underlying acidity and excellent length. All is in place for a promising future, at least over the next decade.
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.
