K1 by Geoff Hardy Reserve Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $85
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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The team’s Reserve release is intended to represent the absolute best Shiraz they can source from their K1 vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. In this case, it is specifically from the Avenue Block. The wine spends time maturing in French oak. From the stunning 2001 vintage, this is under Diam, and a serious contender in the heavy bottle stakes. Magenta with a deep red rim, this is dense but refined, elegant and intense, and exhibits serious length. This is a really exciting wine. The nose has aromas weaving through notes of cassis, chocolate, cloves, tobacco leaves, blackberries and smoked meats. There is balance and complexity with a seamless and seductive texture. A fifteen year proposition. If you have any hesitation whatsoever in jumping on board top-notch Adelaide Hills Shiraz, this wine should put all those fears to rest. Cracking stuff.
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.
