Sorby Adams The Parish Hall St Hugh’s Shiraz Barossa 2021
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Simon Adams, winemaker here as well as owner and general everything, has bottled three fine Barossa Shiraz as a tribute to his great uncle Keith, a local Anglican Parish Minister, back in the fifties. Each of the three wines gives a nod to a discrete parish. They are a trio of superb wines, all hailing from the fabulous 2021 vintage. This one spent two years in French oak hogsheads. This parish is at Angaston and the nearby vineyards in the Eden Valley have provided the fruit. Deep maroon hue, the nose exhibits spices, chocolate, licorice, cocoa powder and plums. Rich and generous, there is good extraction, leading to a supple and seductive texture. Showing excellent length and sleek tannins, this will age wonderfully well in good cellars and provide pleasure for at least a decade.
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.
