Mitolo Angela Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $42
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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After tasting, I try and share the bottles with friends. This one, when one of my friends set eyes on it, was rejected immediately in horror. I was rather surprised and asked why. Turns out that Angela was the name of his ex-wife and he was having nothing to do with it (he’d already spent way too much money on anything to do with an Angela). Those less offendable or without an ex of such a name, will find this a delicious McLaren Vale Shiraz. After pressing, the wine went to hogsheads, 70% ‘seasoned’, 25% new French and 5% new American, all for 16 months from a vineyard known as Sandra’s Block. Dark maroon hue, there are coffee bean notes, chocolate, blackberries, game, smoked meats, cloves, and aniseed. There is focus and balance here, a line of fine acidity, very good length and good ripeness throughout. Enjoy for the next six to eight years, unless, of course, the name puts you off.
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.
