Schubert Goose Yard Block Shiraz 2018
- 94
- $150
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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The fruit here is sourced from Block 2 on their Roennfeldt Road estate, which they call the Goose Yard Block. Fermentation is in five tonne open top fermenters with wild yeasts. Basket pressing into French oak barriques, one-third new with the remainder two years old and maturation over 20 months. Opaque maroon hue, this wine hails from an excellent vintage and shows its pedigree at every turn. The nose offers notes of blackfruits, tobacco leaves, cloves, tar, chocolate, black olives and sour cherries. Young and dense, but it is already beginning to exhibit some complexity. It is generously structured with slightly sandy tannins. Good focus and length, enjoy over the next fifteen to twenty years. A powerful Barossa 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.
