Little Giant Single Vineyard Old Vines 85 Years Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This is from Crane’s Vineyard in the Eden Valley. It spent a year and a half maturing in large French oak. An opaque maroon, the immediate aromas are a plush and alluring chocolate. There is good intensity throughout, with impressive oak integration – a wine of generosity and class. The chocolate is supported by notes of blackberries, warm earth, licorice and mocha. There is a sweet core of cassis, good acidity and fine tannins. A wine of excellent length, fine balance and most of all, promise. This has ten to fifteen years in 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.
