Sorby Adams The Parish Hall St Aidan’s Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Another in the trio of tributes to Great Uncle Keith and his parishes, here we have a wine which spent twenty-four months maturing in a mix of French and American oak hogsheads. The fruit here hails from the Tanunda region, in particular the sub-regions of Bethany and Rowland Flat. An opaque maroon hue here, the wine is beautifully fragrant, with notes of violets and other florals, cassis, leather, soy, blackberries, cold tea, aniseed and mocha. There is good focus through to a gentle fade showing a soft texture combined with satiny tannins. This is a wine of medium length, which will drink impressively over the next six 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.
