Pyren Vineyard Reserve Syrah 2023
- 94
- $110
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Anyone looking for an alternative to our gorgeous bold-as-brass Shiraz from warmer climes, should look no further. From the cooler Pyrenees region, this is a refined, elegant style – black tie compared to Hawaiian shirts – and will impress for many years to come. Dark maroon in colour, the nose swirls through black cherries, spices, plums, mulberries, cold tea and licorice. There is focus and energy to be had here, and the intensity is maintained at all stages on its very long finish. It still has ten to twelve years of providing pleasure ahead of it, longer in good cellaring conditions.
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.
