Monterra Trio McLaren Vale SMG 2022
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A Shiraz dominant blend made famous in France’s Rhône and subsequently the great Aussie regions of the Barossa and McLaren Vale. This one hails from the latter. The colour is a deep garnet with aromas of freshly turned earth, red fruits, a flick of milk chocolate, leather, herbs and coffee grinds. It offers a sleek and slippery, and most appealing, texture, with balance, focus and length. Lots to like here. Will provide pleasure for the next six to eight 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.
