Paracombe Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2018
- 94
- $27
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Another absolute cracking wine from the Adelaide Hills, again with considerable maturation time in the cellar already under its belt. This is utterly ridiculous value. The fruit is a combination of the family’s vineyards and trusted growers. Around 2,000 dozen made. Purple maroon, this exhibits a freshness it has no right to offer. We have notes of spices, chocolate, blackberries, plums, animal skins, mulberries and bergamot. There is some good complexity already evident here and a sweet core of chocolate on the palate. Fine, if ever-so-slightly firm tannins, this is a wine with serious length. It should drink beautifully for at least the next ten to twelve years. Love it. And did I mention the value?
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.
