Hobbs of Barossa Behr Creek Shiraz 2020
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2022-2034
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From Barossa Ranges fruit, this is a terrific Shiraz which will benefit for an extended stint in your cellar (in truth, delicious now, but if you can keep your hands off it, you won’t be disappointed in a decade or more). The fruit is handpicked, cold soaked and then undergoes a wild ferment for a ten day period. Dark crimson, there is coiled power here. Good concentration too and perhaps a touch of oak, but it is extremely well integrated, such that it is effectively invisible. A lovely, finely focused and yet full of flavour style of Barossa Shiraz – Peter Schell and his team walk this tightrope with seeming ease. Chocolate, bay leaves, coffee grinds, dark berries, cherries and plums, even a hint of Vegemite. With very good length here there is an exciting future ahead.
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.
