Sorby Adams Le Verrier Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2043
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A classic Barossa Shiraz from the fine, if firm, vintage of 2020. The wine spent two years maturing in French oak hogsheads, 30% new. Deep opaque purple in colour, the nose is redolent of smoked meats, warm earth, tobacco leaves, aniseed, dried herbs, chocolate and black fruits. This is quite a fleshy style of Shiraz, with well-integrated oak, which gives off a flicker of vanilla. Seamless, satiny tannins, excellent persistence and an exciting future. Ten to twenty years will sail by with this wine. Delicious.
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.
