Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 2023
- 98
- $180
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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A stunning Magill, Penfolds’ single vineyard release. 100% Shiraz, maturation is for seventeen months in a mix of French barriques, 34% new, and American hogsheads, 33% new. Very close to the best wine of the day, aside from the Grange. Great buying. Opaque purple/maroon, this really is a bit exciting. The nose offers notes of licorice, graphite, black fruits, cloves, soy, dark chocolate, cassis and coffee beans. Seamlessly structured with an alluring texture, this is exceptionally long. It has concentration and power, yet more refinement than one expects from 2023. Despite the length, the intensity and balance never waver for a moment. This will sing for at least the next two decades. A great Magill.
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.
