Lienert Sieben Klon Vineyard Shiraz 2020
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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A fine Shiraz from the Barossa, my first impression is that this is a wine which is very true to vintage. For me, many of the 2020’s have a power, concentration and burliness which suggests that while they might be thoroughly enjoyable drinking at this early stage, they’ll be better with time. Anyone prepared to give them that time will be very happy, I am certain. This wine is a perfect example of that. Dark maroon, we have notes of plums, black fruits, tobacco leaves, warm earth and more. Very young and there is a slightly sappy acidity and the wine has decent length. There is oak but the wine has handled it with ease and everything is in balance. The texture is seamless but firm and the finish takes no prisoners. So much promise here and it should achieve that given time. I’d leave it at least two to three years and then drink over the following decade. The score reflects the wine today – it should continue to rise over the coming years.
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.
