Hollick Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Sourced from the estate’s 1975 plantings, the team like to give the wine twelve months of maturation, with 15% of the oak being new French. The wine is a bruised plum hue and the nose gives us spices, herbs and red fruits. Good oak integration with impressive concentration, this is still very youthful. Notes of roast meats and beef stock. Good focus, intensity and elegance, with fine acidity and sleek tannins. The wine has balance and length. Enjoy this for 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.
