Mitolo Lupo Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $42
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A fresh and delicious version of McLaren Vale Shiraz, this has a dark maroon colour. The nose gives us notes of chocolate, mocha, coffee grinds and bay leaves, along with some cassis and blackberries. Good complexity is already evident, the wine has a lovely plushness and there is a supple, creamy palate. Fine acidity, silky tannins, excellent balance and real persistence. Love it. A ten year proposition.
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.
