Reschke Reserve Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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From the Coonawarra region, the fruit came from a 35-year-old vineyard planted on terra rossa soil. The team used a percentage of whole berries in the fermentation. Maturation was in a combination of French and American oak barrels and hogsheads for a year and a half. From a superb vintage and this shows. Opaque maroon with a magenta rim, the nose opens with lashings of oak and the vanilla notes that emanate from it. It is also bursting with aromas of chocolate, mulberries, plums, cocoa powder, coffee beans and mocha. There is good integration of that oak, and the wine is dense and bold. Those who love a richly flavoured Coonawarra red will adore this wine. There is excellent length, the structure is seamless and the wine is well balanced. It finishes with mouthcoating tannins. Despite what seems like endless flavour, behind everything is a degree of elegance. On the palate, towards the finish, we see the emergence of notes of cold tea and truffles. This is a fifteen-year proposition.
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.
