Incygnes Wines Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
- 94+
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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We move to the younger vintage and again, what we have here is a fine and accurate reflection of the vintage – 2021 being such an exciting year, we have a very good wine in the making. Also from the estate’s Green’s Vineyard in the Vine Vale sub-region. Opaque magenta in colour, this is beautifully perfumed. There is power here but much more finesse to go with it. Aniseed, mocha, plums, coffee beans and a gentle note of hot chocolate. Finely balanced, the structure here augurs well for its future. Seamless, there are plenty of tannins, but they are ever-so-fine and great length to finish. This is a stunning Barossa Shiraz in the making and early indications are that this will sail through a decade.
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.
