K1 by Geoff Hardy Single Vineyard Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Always pleasing to see a wine with some age on offer, especially when it is so well priced. Under Diam, the fruit comes from the K1 vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. Fermentation includes 20% whole bunches. Maturation was for a year and a half in French oak, 40% of it new. A gleaming cerise red, there is some toasty oak still evident, but it is in no way a detraction or distraction. The nose gives us aromas of plums, smoked meats, mushrooms, aniseed, chocolate and red cherries. The wine has serious power and focus and very good length, through to fine tannins. It should drink beautifully for ten to fifteen years and would be ideal with a rich stew or a very good steak.
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.
