Howard Park Scotsdale Great Southern Shiraz 2024
- 93
- $54
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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The fruit here was harvested from a selection of the best parcels throughout the team’s vineyards in the Frankland River sub-region in the Great Southern. Maturation was for a year and a half in a mix of barriques, hogsheads and puncheons, all French, with 25% of them new. Vibrant purple/maroon in colour, aromas weave through notes of mulberries, plums, herbs, sage and bay leaves. The oak has been nicely integrated throughout, and we have direction and grip with good power underlying. A wine of decent length which will offer pleasure for ten to twelve years, longer if you have the patience.
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.
