Paxton Shiraz MV 2022
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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MV stands for multiple vineyard, the team have six biodynamic vineyards in the region and this wine has fruit from four of them. The wine spent a year in French oak and presents as a purple colour. This is tight and concentrated with a nose that shows black fruits, chocolate, charcoal and black cherries. Seamless in structure, the palate offers cloves, soy and aniseed. Very good focus and length here, with silky tannins on the finish, a finish which maintains its intensity right through. Ten years.
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.
