Red Deer Station 30 Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2018
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- Drink by: 2022-2028
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If you think Langhorne Creek is a region with which you are not familiar, I can assure that this old South Australian district has provided the fruit for a great many wines you’ve enjoyed over the years. Many of the big boys regularly source fruit from here, often for their very best. The hallmark of the fruit is generosity, juicy red fruit notes and cashmere tannins, and this wine has it in spades. Dark magenta in colour, we have notes of chocolate, red berries and most especially redcurrants, leather and fresh earth. This has line and length, through to fine tannins with more chocolate on the palate. Delicious now and over the next five to six 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.
