Lange Estate Fifth Generation Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Makes an exciting pair with the Estate’s delicious Cabernet and, if anything, this is even more impressive. From the Frankland River region, this is as good a bargain as you are likely to find. An inky dark maroon, we have a nose offering dried herbs, blackberries, leather, aniseed, animal skins, tobacco leaves and chocolate. There is serious flavour here. A wine that is anything but a shrinking violet showing impressive length and the intensity is maintained for the full journey. Finishing with very fine tannins, this has room to improve even further and is a ten year proposition. Amazing value.
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.
