Longview Vista Shiraz Barbera 2020
- 92
- $23
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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Many people who are looking for a Friday night footy wine or a glug-and-chug barbeque match tend to go cheap and simple. Nothing wrong with that but what about going cheap and top quality. Don’t be fooled into thinking that simply because this is not a big, robustly structured wine that it is not serious and not offering buckets of flavour. Do not penalise it for that because it really is delicious. Bursting with notes of mulberries, chocolate and plums, this is soft and plush with a supple texture – love it. And if for some reason you decide that you want to put it away for a few years, although I am not sure why you would not be all over this today, it will drink well for the next four to six.
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.
