Lights Valley Shiraz 2021
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A low-yielding, single vineyard provides the fruit for this fine Barossa Shiraz with twelve days skin contact before 18 months maturation, blending, and a further six months in oak. Dark purple, this is a more generous offering. Open, approachable and appealing, it is ripe with black fruits, coffee beans, chocolate and a hint of tar. Really silky tannins here and excellent length. This has a good ten to twelve years ahead of it. An impressive Barossa Shiraz. Love it.
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.
