Parishes Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $22
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Another superb Shiraz from one of my favourite regions, and from a cracking vintage. The wine spent a year maturing in oak. Near opaque purple in colour, this is dense, rich and powerful with full throttle fruit and flavour. Intense and generous, even by Langhorne Creek standards. Loads of chocolate are the immediate impression, with black fruits, aniseed and soy plus hints of cloves. Showing fine silky tannins, the palate exudes chocolate, along with mocha and mulberries. Supple and rich in texture with really good length and balance. Love this wine, which will provide pleasure for at least a decade.
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.
