Organic Hill Founders Release Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Opaque maroon in colour, again we are down the preservative free, organic path. Slightly savoury in character, the nose gives us notes of root vegetables, warm earth, coffee grinds, black fruits, licorice and a slightly leafy, herbal note. There is also soy and cold tea evident. A fine sleek texture, the wine has good focus and decent length. For drinking over the next eight to twelve 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.
