Haselgrove Col Cross Single Vineyard Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2035+
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From a block of old vine Shiraz in McLaren Vale, this is under diam. Just 3,036 bottles made. The wine spends a year and a half maturing in French oak hogsheads. Very dark maroon hue, this has a wide array of perfumes running throughout – spices, tobacco leaves, cassis, cinnamon, dried herbs, dark berries, coffee grinds and blackberries. There is deftly handled oak. The wine is balanced, offers good intensity and a line of bright acidity, with a lingering finish focusing on fine tannins. Expect it to continue to provide pleasure for more than a 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.
