Organic Hill Founders Release Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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As one might expect from the name, organics and biodynamics are in play here. From McLaren Vale, we are also talking preservative free. The colour is dark maroon and on the nose we have attractive notes of coffee beans, aniseed, blackcurrants, spices and cold tea. There is also a note reminiscent of the cough syrup Mum would pour down my throat as a kid, given the slightest sign of a sniffle. I must say I rather liked it, though I suspect it was heavily sweetened for children. There’s also a note of nougat here. Good intensity, fine balance and impressive length, there is a lot to like here, and the wine should drink beautifully for the next ten 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.
