Jacob’s Creek Reserve Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $19.99
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Jacobs Creek are well known for a plethora of easy drinking, crowd pleasers, but here they show they can also make serious wines of quality. Deep red/magenta in colour, the nose reveals aromas weaving through mulberries, chocolate, black fruits, vanilla, licorice, bay leaves and beefstock. There is good oak integration here, although vestiges of it are still evident. A wine with juicy acidity and fine tannins, there is good focus and surely further improvement ahead of it. The wine finishes with sleek tannins and maintains its intensity throughout. Enjoy over 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.
