Hewitson Miss Harry GSM 2021
- 94
- $28
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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A cracking GSM blend from the Barossa. The blend will vary but usually sits around half Grenache and even splits of the other two varieties. From old bush vine, dry grown vineyards, the age of the vines ranges from younger plantings to vines which are an astonishing 140 years of age. The wine has also spent time in older French oak barriques. Purple/magenta in colour, lovely aromatics here. A mix of berries – blackberries, boysenberries, black cherries and more chocolate, dry herbs and spices with good depth. This is a really fine example of what the blend can achieve and represents serious value. A soft, supple and seductive texture with serious length and the slightest whiff of pepper to be found on the finish. Like this enormously – impossible not to. Drink over the next six to ten 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.
