Moonvine Shiraz McLaren Vale 2021
- 90
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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From a superb vintage for the region, the team operate under biodynamic principles. The colour here is an inky dark magenta, while the nose reveals notes of chocolate, licorice, coffee grinds, warm earth, rural characters and animal skins. There is a soft palate, and the wine is of medium length with a gentle fade and fine tannins. Enjoy this now and for the next four 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.
