Haselgrove Il Padrone Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The wine spends twenty months in French oak, new and older, before barrel selection provides the final blend. Dark maroon colour here, this is richly flavoured, as one might expect from a top notch Shiraz from McLaren Vale in a great year. Dried herbs, soy, animal skins, cloves and black fruits, supported by plush notes of cassis and mocha. Amazing length, the wine maintains its intensity for the full journey, with sleek tannins. Concentration and balance with good oak integration throughout. This is a cracker and will drink beautifully for at least 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.
