Hollick Stock Route Shiraz Cabernet 2021
- 94
- $27
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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It might sound like a broken record, but do not miss any opportunity to stock your cellar with good wines from the 2021 vintage, from a range of South Australian regions, including this blend from Wrattonbully and Coonawarra. Your chances of doing so are diminishing. Even more so, do not miss the opportunity to do so when the wine is such good value. The Shiraz is from both regions while the Cabernet hails from just Coonawarra. Deep maroon in colour, the nose offers notes of warm earth, coffee grinds, cocoa powder, dried herbs, leather and blackcurrants. Seamless in structure, there is very good length here, with intensity maintained for the full journey. Showing sleek tannins and fine acidity, the wine has excellent length and remains well balanced at all times. The team suggest early drinking, and there is no doubt that it will prove most enjoyable for those who do so, but well cellared, it can surely be enjoyed over the next ten to twelve years. It really is superb value.
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.
