Pirathon Gold Label Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $59
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Gold Label represents the prestige wines in the Pirathon range and has done since 2016. This is from a superb vintage for the Barossa Valley region and a single vineyard in the Marananga sub-region, which yields just a single tonne per acre. The wine spent a year and a half in French oak hogsheads, half of which were new with just 206 cases made. An opaque maroon, we have notes of plums, spices, mulberries, sage, crushed herbs, chocolate, cocoa powder, graphite and aniseed. The palate sees more and more chocolate notes emerging, dark chocolate especially complemented by good oak integration. Generous and approachable, this has very good length, finishing with sleek tannins. Enjoy over the next ten to twelve 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.
