Schubert The Lone Goose Shiraz Viognier 2018
- 92
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This blend is from a twenty-five year old vineyard located on Roennfeldt Road, part of the estate. The wine is made with co-fermentation of the components, which includes 3% Viognier. Wild yeasts, maturation is in older French oak barriques for 20 months and under diam. A very dark maroon hue, the nose is full of warm earth, florals, mushrooms, cigar box notes, dry herbs, spices and black fruits. Sleek tannins and a fine line of acidity, this is still youthful, but offering hints of early complexity. A wine of medium length that will provide pleasure for six to eight 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.
