Murray Street Artisan Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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From the Greenock Estate (92%) and Gomersal (8%) vineyards. There is also 8% of Mataro included in the blend. The wine spends eleven months in oak, 18% of it new. 2,000 dozen. This is an inky dark purple in colour. The nose exhibits notes of chocolate, black forest cake, dark berries, bay leaves, blueberries and aniseed, with a gentle oak influence still evident. There is juicy acidity, appealing focus and direction, a lingering finish and very fine tannins, with everything in place. Lots to like here in this wine which really does promise even better things in the years to come. Eight to twelve years with ease, more if you need them. Excellent buying.
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.
