James Kalleske Wines Short Stories GSM 2021
- 91
- $38
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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The famous Rhône blend done Barossa style. Grenache dominant, the wine spends time in large format French oak. A deep regal red. This is an earthy style, and one can almost feel the warm Barossa soil slipping between one’s fingers. The aromas weave through dry herbs, mulberries, red berries, plums and animal skins on an attractive and well-focused palate. There are silky tannins and the wine has medium length. Generous drinking now and over the next three to four 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.
