Schubert Goose Yard Block Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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The team consider this to be their flagship wine, and it is sourced entirely from their Roennfeldt Road Vineyard. Viticulture ensures small bunches which yield intensely flavoured grapes and velvety tannins. Wonderful to see that there are still wines from the stunning 2021 vintage available. If you haven’t already gone overboard on that vintage, don’t miss what is surely one of the last opportunities. Under cork. The colour here is near black/opaque maroon. There is still plenty of oak evident, but integration is still on track. The wine is plush, approachable and generous with aromas of chocolate/mocha, coffee beans, black olives, vanilla, charcuterie, licorice, squid ink, blackberries and cassis. The wine is impeccably balanced, offers a sleek texture, has drive, focus and pronounced flavours, and is extremely long, finishing with silky tannins. A cracking Barossa Valley Shiraz from a great vintage, enjoy this over the next fifteen to twenty 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.
