Hobbs Behr Creek Barossa Ranges Shiraz Montepulciano 2021
- 91
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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A Shiraz Montepulciano blend is perhaps not the most common mix one regularly encounters, but this French/Italian combination is a delicious one. Hailing from the exceptional 2021 vintage no doubt assists. The wine underwent a wild ferment over ten days. Bright red/garnet hue, this does tend to slide slightly towards the more rustic style of wine – which immediately puts it in the love-it-or-hate-it category. Warm earth, coffee grinds, chocolate, florals, black fruits and licorice. Soft and supple with fine tannins, this has a lovely lingering finish with a gentle fade. Attractive drinking over the next two to four 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.
