Majella Coonawarra Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A dark blood red hue, we are straight into some appealing chocolatey aromas. The wine exhibits well handled oak with a touch of vanilla, tobacco leaves, mint chocolate, spices and mulberries. Quite a plush and generous style, there is very good length here, with the intensity maintained throughout. With fine tannins and bright acidity, this is good now but has some serious promise to it. Enjoy over the next ten to fifteen years. Seriously good buying.
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.
