Hare’s Chase The Springer Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The fruit here is sourced from growers across various sub-regions around the Barossa. The colour of the wine is opaque black/maroon. This is delicious, a very fine Barossa Shiraz from a sensational vintage. The nose here exhibits black olives, chocolate, black fruits, axle grease and cassis. There are silky tannins here and good length while a sweet core of dark chocolate holds the wine together. Drink it over the next decade, over which period the score should increase even more. Love 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.
