Pirramimma The Earl Shiraz 2022
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Gorgeous and plush McLaren Vale Shiraz here, named in honour of the family’s heritage, Earl of Hartfell and Earl of Annandale, from centuries ago. A very dark purple/maroon, there are lashings of chocolatey/vanillin oak here, but well handled. If a nudge of oak in your big and bold reds is your thing, you will absolutely adore this wine. The nose also gives us notes of dark plums, black cherries and coffee beans. There are rich mocha hints and a flick of roast meats. Ripe and rich, big and bold, but it is rather cuddly and comfortable. And at all times, seriously delicious. The chocolate and cocoa powder is also very much on the palate. There is fine balance, excellent length and cashmere tannins. Cracking stuff and should remain so for the next fifteen 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.
