Lou Miranda 1907 Centenarian Old Vine Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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The grapes for this superb Barossa Shiraz come from the team’s dry grown Church Block, which was planted way back in 1907. Maturation was in new and older American oak for a whopping 60 months. Just 2,800 bottles made. Opaque maroon in hue, there is still a bucketload of quality oak evident here, well in the process of integration and imbuing the wine with vanillin and toasty characters. These sit comfortably next to notes of blackberries, coffee beans, axle grease (in a positive sense), dark chocolate, bay leaves, cloves and aniseed. An appealing suppleness on the palate with good length here and sleek tannins. This is a real crowd-pleaser and will drink impressively for the next fifteen 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.
