Harewood Estate Shiraz Reserve 2022
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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Western Australia just continues to throw up superb Shiraz and this is a cracker. Inky opaque purple hue, this is plush and balanced and generous with notes of roast meats, cigar boxes, black fruits, cloves, black olives and mulberries. There is good focus here and abundant tannins, which are soft and fine. With a lingering finish, this wine will surely provide much pleasure over the next eight to fifteen years, and improve further over this time.
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.
