Sorby Adams The Parish Hall St Boniface Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The final wine in the Parish trilogy/tribute to Great Uncle Keith, this one saw its two year maturation take place in American oak. The fruit is from the Kalimna and Ebenezer sub-regions in the Barossa, famous names. Purple maroon in colour, the nose is redolent with both red and black fruits, plums, chocolate, spices, warm earth and black olives. This is finely crafted, utterly seamless with a flick of oak, but it is well integrated with the palate offering gorgeous molten notes of chocolate – all very Barossa. This is delicious and will surely be so for at least the next decade. My only quibble is that the team have suggested a food pairing involving celeriac, which makes one wonder what on earth the wine did to offend them. For me, cracking drinking and even better if one avoids celeriac.
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.
