Sorby Adams The Thing Shiraz Eden Valley and Barossa Valley 2019
- 97
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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Under cork, and a monster bottle, this is big in every way. Big bottle, big aromas on the nose, big colour and especially big flavours (and yes, a big price). So, it seems entirely appropriate that it should deserve a big score. An inky, opaque maroon here, this nose seems saturated in aromatic flavours – coffee beans, espresso, dark chocolate, black fruits, mocha, licorice, soy and cloves. Big in every way! The more time in glass, the more the chocolatey notes emerged on the nose. Rich and ripe, that chocolate dominated the palate as well – a wine that seems like molten chocolate. Fine and silky tannins, great intensity and immaculate balance, this is very, very long. Just delicious and I loved it. A twenty year proposition.
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.
