Taylors Jaraman Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $34
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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A delicious, refreshing style of Shiraz from the Clare Valley (72%) and McLaren Vale (28%). The wine spent fifteen months in a mix of new and older American oak hogsheads. Inky purple, the nose gives us notes of cherries, coffee grinds, plums, chocolate, mocha, cassis and blackberries. Hints of beefstock and licorice, the oak integration provides a flick of vanilla. With depth, this is richly flavoured carried by very good length. A lovely wine – seamless, supple, dense and generous with good extraction. Love it. Six to eight years ahead, at least, although utterly delicious already.
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.
