Haselgrove Col Cross Single Vineyard Shiraz 2018
- 96
- $90
- Drink by: 2022-2037
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This is from a small block of old vine McLaren Vale Shiraz with just 3,690 bottles made. Winemaking is very similar to the Ambassador, though this wine sees a little less pumping over. Inky black/purple. This is big, ripe, rich and powerful. Notes of chocolate, blackberries, cassis, leather, dried fruits and licorice. A hint of oak, but well integrated and unintrusive. This is a blockbuster with very fine tannins, good balance and impressive length. A wine with a good ten to fifteen years ahead of it. Big and bold.
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.
