St Johns Brook Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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It has been said many times, but Margaret River Shiraz still hides in the shadow of its more famous sibling, Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a good, extremely well priced wine to try, if you are keen to see what it can offer. A maroon purple colour here, the nose gives us mulberries, miso, raspberries, black fruits, soy, black cherries and graphite. This is vibrant and bold and there are the vestiges of some vanillin oak still evident but integrating well. A wine of energy and direction with fine if slightly firm tannins, there is good length here and a lingering finish. Enjoy over the next six to eight years.
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.
