Paxton Jones Block Single Vineyard 2021
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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2021 was a superb vintage in McLaren Vale, especially for Shiraz. This wine confirms that and provides some truly brilliant value, as well. This is a biodynamic, single vineyard wine which spent twenty months in French oak, 20% of which was new. An opaque maroon, this is a concentrated, powerful and dense wine with a lifted nose. A big, bold and balanced McLaren Vale Shiraz, but one exhibiting freshness and energy. There are notes of chocolate, plums, black fruits, cassis and cigar boxes with good early complexity evident. The wine maintains its intensity throughout the length, which is also impressive, supported by sleek tannins. A really good McLaren Vale Shiraz, which will provide pleasure for at least ten to twelve years. Not many better value Shiraz on offer from anywhere.
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.
