Schubert The Sentinel Shiraz 2017
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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From the estate’s vineyards on Roennfeldt Road in Marananga in the Barossa, this is fermented in five tonne open top fermenters, twice daily pumpovers. The wine is then basket pressed into a mix of French oak barriques, 26% new and 74% older, for sixteen months maturation. Under diam with the darkest maroon hue. The nose is all about chocolate, warm earth, cloves, mushrooms and smoked meats. Notes of cocoa powder emerge on the palate supported by gentle oak. The texture is supple and dense, finishing with fine, silky tannins and a lingering finish. Well balanced, it is rich and a little bit exciting. This will provide attractive drinking over the next ten to twelve 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.
