Pertaringa Yeoman Shiraz 2019
- 96
- $250
- Drink by: 2022-2037
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Again, a wine under cork, and with a similar oak treatment to the Tipsy Hill, this is another wine from the Bec Hardy stable only made when the conditions demand. This is elite stuff. Opaque maroon, it oozes delicious black cherries, mocha notes, cocoa powder, plums, cloves, black fruits and chocolate. Well crafted, this offers excellent length. Tight and yet expressive; focused and yet generous. The tannins are very fine but seem endless with good balance throughout. This is a big, rich, ripe chocolate bomb and is seriously lovely with a decade to fifteen years ahead of it. Tossed up about the score and whether it deserved a touch higher. Left it here as I am sure that the wine will speak for itself and be worth an even higher score, and more, in a few years. Like the wine itself, there is no rush. Great stuff.
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.
