Springs Road Kangaroo Island Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Wonderful to see wines from Kangaroo Island after those devastating bushfires and let’s hope that they get the support they deserve. The wine spends a year in French oak maturing, around 30% new. The colour here is a very dark, inky purple/maroon. The nose offers notes of chocolate, licorice, plums, florals, mocha and coffee beans. This is rich, exuberant and even a little decadent. The structure is seamless, concentrated, rich and powerful, with serious length. It lingers with persistence, with soft tannins evident. The palate sees the emergence of juicy blackberries and cocoa powder. Quite delicious. A ten 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.
