Oliver’s Taranga Tempranillo 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Another Spanish star, Tempranillo may be more at home in Rioja but is really making waves down here and McLaren Vale seems ideally suited to it. The colour is that of black cherries. The flavours dark and concentrated, with roast meats and leather, dry herbs and soy, licorice and cherry. A wine of medium length, there are abundant tannins yet pleasingly fine. The concentration continues throughout the wine. Enjoy over the next four to six 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.
