Paringa Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $18
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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We have seen enough vintages of this wine in recent years to know that the combination of value and flavour it offers, yet again, is no fluke. Six months with French oak. A vibrant purple hue, the nose is a tumble of black cherries, aniseed, soy, blackberries, leather and cassis. The palate sees the flavours move more to the sphere of cold tea and mulberries. Showing soft tannins and plenty of length, this is great value and delicious drinking. Drink now and for the next six to eight years. If there is a reason not to fill the cellar with this wine, indeed, to have it as your daily drink, I can’t think of it.
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.
