Pertaringa Two Gentlemen GSM McLaren Vale 2022
- 93
- $26
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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The two gentlemen in question are the founders of Pertaringa, Geoff Hardy and Ian Leask. The fruit is a blend of 50% Grenache from the Zuzolo Vineyard, 30% Shiraz from the Klavenick Vineyard and 20% Mourvèdre from Rogers Rd. Discrete fermentation followed by nine months in seasoned French oak before blending. Deep purple, this is ripe and plush with chocolate, licorice, mulberries, cassis, red currants and a note like a richly flavoured (is there any other kind?) chocolate mud cake. Exuberant in style, there is good length here, with the intensity maintained for the full length of the wine. With soft tannins this is delicious and suitable to enjoy over the next five to 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.
