Speakeasy Shiraz Adelaide Hills 2017
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Cooler climate Shiraz continues to excite and few regions offer so many fine examples as the Adelaide Hills. Five days cold-soaking before fermentation with two different strains of yeast, both from the Rhône Valley, the wine then spent sixteen months in French barriques, 40% new. An inky maroon colour here, with a lovely impression of plushness on the nose and palate. Notes of spices, violets, animal skins, dry herbs, red fruits, coffee grinds, chocolate and cherries. Very fine, quite sleek, tannins whilst the spiciness continues on the palate, along with tobacco leaves. Very good length here, and the intensity continues right through. This will provide pleasure for 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.
