Moss Brothers Fidium Shiraz Margaret River 2023
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Margaret River Shiraz from an absolutely stellar vintage, and this wine reflects that quality throughout. Maturation was in French oak barriques. The final wine was a barrel selection. Dark maroon/purple in colour, everywhere you look with this wine, the quality of 2023 shines through. The nose gives us aromas of chocolate, cloves, soy, graphite, plums, bay leaves, coffee grinds, warm earth, mulberries and truffles. An absolute cornucopia of flavours throughout. The wine is intense but extremely well balanced and very long. It finishes with fine, slightly powdery tannins and should drink beautifully for the next ten to twelve years. A really impressive Shiraz from a region which doesn’t always value the variety as it should. Delicious.
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.
