Paisley Boombox Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Maintaining the theme of strange names, this Boombox Shiraz is sourced from the team’s Barossa vineyards. Vibrant purple in colour, the wine offers lifted aromatics – blackberries, cassis, chocolate and bay leaves. Ripe and chocolatey with a lovely silky, soft palate, impressive length, excellent balance and a great future. The palate reveals some plummy notes on the finish to go with the chocolate. Delicious. Just what one wants in a Barossa Shiraz and to be honest, it puts a lot of releases, at two or three times the price, to shame. Drink for eight to 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.
