Leconfield Reserve Shiraz 2020
- 95
- $36
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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If their Cabernet Franc represents good value, this is a staggering buy. The wine spent time in a mix of new and three-year-old French hogsheads. Never understood why some wine lovers underestimate Coonawarra Shiraz. Some locals too. This wine should dissuade anyone from that in future. Dark magenta. This is a nose with serious depths to it. Black fruit flavours, coffee beans, mocha, soy, aniseed and chocolate, even a hint of mint. There are also notes reminiscent of red jellybeans. Fine balance and excellent length here supported by silky tannins so the wine is well structured. This is a cracking example of a Coonawarra Shiraz and one which should get even better over the next decade.
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.
