Paringa Shiraz 2020
- 90
- $15
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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From the Murray Darling region, this is silly value. If you are looking for a simple but delicious and easy drinking red for the Friday night footy, a barbecue with friends, something to go with a pizza or just a winding-down glass after work, how can you go wrong? Dark red in colour, we have black fruits, dry herbs, tobacco leaf notes, warm earth and chocolate. Richly flavoured, neatly balanced and supple with decent length. Serious 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.
