Paisley Turntable GSM 2023
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- $25
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Celebrating a previous connection with music, the blend here is 48% Grenache, 36% Shiraz and 16% Mataro, all from the Barossa and Eden Valleys. Fermentation was with native yeasts and whole bunches were incorporated. Maturation was in older hogsheads for a year and a half. Deep garnet with a gleaming crimson rim, red fruits are to the fore here. Cherries and raspberries dominate, along with notes of coffee grinds, warm earth and mushrooms. There is also a slight sump oil character, which is certainly not unpleasant. Quite a muscular and powerful style, the wine needs a touch more definition to get to the next level. It is of medium length with grippy tannins and should drink well for the next four 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.
