Terra Felix Heathcote Shiraz 2018
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
Share
From an excellent vintage in the Heathcote region in Victoria, this is a cracking Shiraz, representing excellent value. The team usually incorporate a dollop of Viognier to enhance the aromatics. Maturation was in French oak. Blood red/ maroon in colour, on the nose we have notes of plums, cigar boxes, warm earth, chocolate, white pepper, black fruits and cocoa powder. There is good oak integration here and it does give us hints of toast. There are also sour cherry notes emerging on the finish. The wine is clean, bright and fresh with good length and satiny tannins. It has many good years ahead of it, even though it already has considerable time under its belt. Enjoy this for the next eight years, longer if you have the patience.
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.
