Schwarz Wine Company Nitschke Block Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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From a fine Barossa vintage, this is a single vineyard wine from the Nitschke Road block, planted in 1968 in the Bethany sub-region. An opaque maroon with a dark purple rim, the nose exhibits notes of coffee beans, chocolate, axle grease, cassis, tar, blackberries, mocha and cloves. Richly flavoured, the wine has good depth and intensity, concluding with fine tannins and a lingering finish. At the moment, a wine of medium length – to go to the next level, needs to develop a little more length, which will hopefully arrive in the coming years. Whatever happens, it should certainly provide pleasure over the next eight to ten 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.
