Paisley Maeve Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $48
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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This single vineyard Barossa Shiraz is the team’s flagship, and deservedly so. The team usually give the wine an extensive period of maturation in a mix of both French and American oak, a considerable portion of which is new. An inky dark purple hue, the nose offers notes of spices, blackberries, cassis, warm earth, chocolate and cloves. Rich and intense, this has abundant but very fine tannins and a lingering finish. The wine is balanced, seamless, delicious and will remain so for a good 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.
