Schubert Estate The Gosling Single Vineyard Shiraz 2016
- 93
- $55
- Drink by: 2021 - 2028
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As with all the wines on offer from Schubert Estate, this is impressively packaged, even if they have gone somewhat heavy on the goose imagery. This is a heavily awarded wine, again from the family vineyards in the Marananga sub-region of the Barossa. Handpicked and then destemmed and fermented in 5-tonne open top fermenters with twice daily pumpovers. After fermentation, the wine is basket-pressed. Free-run juice and pressings are combined and transferred to older French oak 225-litre barriques, where it sits for a further 18 months. After barrel selection, the wine is finally bottled.
Near black in colour. Warm earth notes intertwined with blackberries. There are flavours moving through leather, cloves, chocolate and coffee grinds. A sweet core of mocha which really sets the wine up as something a bit delicious, but there is also a savouriness which provides ideal balance. Good length and excellent focus. An absolute crowd pleaser.
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.
