Port Phillip Pinot Noir Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $44
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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This intriguing blend is an even split between the two varieties, both from the team’s Red Hill Vineyard. Some of the Pinot Noir is included in the fermentation as whole bunches, maturing nine months in older French oak. Crimson in colour, this is an attractive style for relatively earlier drinking. Cassis, blueberries, spices, cherries and raspberries. Seamless in style, this wine has a silky texture and a lingering finish. Quite delicious. Enjoy this over the next four to five 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.
