Haselgrove Sunrach Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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Great vintage in McLaren Vale gives this wine an early advantage. ‘Sunrach’ is the Celtic word for special, quite apt, here. Maturation in a mix of new and older French oak for a period of twenty months. Opaque purple/maroon, this is rich and chocolatey with coffee beans and mocha. Classic top notch McLaren Vale Shiraz from a wonderful year. If this is your thing, then you’ll love this one. A touch of espresso with blackberries and mulberries. Vanillin oak certainly, but very well integrated. Delicious if decadent stuff, both seamless and supple. It offers soft and cushiony tannins. There is excellent length here and it maintains its intensity for the full journey. Eight to fifteen years ahead of it. Cracking stuff.
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.
