Robert Oatley Signature Series McLaren Shiraz 2019
- 93
- $23
- Drink by: 2021 - 2026
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The vineyards providing the grapes for this wine are from the Blewitt Springs, Willunga and McLaren Flats districts. Fermented on skins in a mix of open and closed fermenters and then matured in French oak for around a year.
Vibrant purple colour. This offers immediate notes of mulberries, chocolate and plums. There is the merest hint of very gentle oak. This has ripe black fruits on the palate, cigar box notes and black cherries. There is a slight touch of sour cherry on the finish which lingers. This will sail through five or six years, but is delicious right now. A cracking and cracking value McLaren Vale shiraz.
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.
