Moss Brothers Fidium Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The team here suggest that this beautiful Margaret River Shiraz would be “perfectly paired with a Mexican slow cooked pulled pork served with fresh homemade tortillas”. Or perhaps you could just drink it, as that does seem a lot of work to go to, if one wants to enjoy a bottle of wine. Either way, it is a wine which is worth it. Pumping over and plunging took place twice a day after ferment before transfer to barrels for maturation. This is a powerful wine, with coiled force and concentration. A hint of tar with the blackberries, chocolate, espresso, coffee grinds and toasty oak. Good structure here, with focus, length and power. There is real grip, with the firm tannins. Leave it for at least two to three years, if possible, and then enjoy over the following decade.
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.
