Land of Tomorrow McLaren Vale Touriga 2023
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Touriga is a major contributor to the great vintage ports from the Douro Valley in Portugal, not to mention many of their underrated red wines. We don’t see it often here, which is curious as it would seem ideally suited. Wines like this will certainly help its cause. Dark purple in colour, this is plush, approachable and generous. The nose reveals notes of plums, chocolate, some toasty oak, herbs and blackberries with mulberries emerging on the palate. A wine of focus and energy with excellent length, the intensity is maintained for the full journey. Delicious drinking now and over the next ten to fifteen years. It would be ideal for your next gourmet barbeque. Much to like here.
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.
