Hewitson BARREL 1853 Shiraz Mourvèdre 2020
- 97
- $450
- Drink by: 2023-2043
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This is something that is truly unique. The team have taken the best barrel from their monopole Shiraz and the best barrel from their Old Garden Mourvèdre, with the selection made after twenty months of maturation, and blended them. So, grapes which can trace their heritage back to 1853. Deep maroon hue, the nose is intense but suggests both finesse and integrity. Blackberries, chocolate, rose petals, truffles, animal skins – we already have considerable complexity evident. The texture is seamless and seductive with firm but fine tannins. I’d say it has twenty years ahead of it but I suspect that well cellared bottles have considerably more. A stunning red.
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.
