Hesketh Wines Midday Somewhere Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $16
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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I have friends who will look at the score here and think I have lost my mind. For them, it is simply not possible that a wine at this price could possibly ever warrant this score. Well, as they say in the classics, that just leaves more for the rest of us. It is an utterly delicious wine that is ridiculous value. The fruit hails from the Limestone Coast and spent some time maturing in older French oak. Crimson red, there are spices, cherries, blueberries, crushed herbs and notes of licorice on the nose. Fragrant and alluring, the texture is seamless and there is good focus with decent length and sleek tannins on the lingering finish. It is so well-crafted, especially at this price. Wow. Four to six years.
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.
