Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Shiraz 2023
- 95
- $59
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This is the team’s sixth release from the Crayeres Vineyard of a Cabernet Shiraz, the great Aussie red blend, although the 13th release of a Cabernet dominant blend. The wine spent 14 months maturing in French oak barrels, 18% of which were new. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Shiraz. 3,050 six-packs made. Dark mauve in colour, this is a seamless and appealing style, a really impressive wine. The nose gives us red fruits, notably cherries and cranberries, with aniseed, bay leaves, florals and kirsch notes. Oak integration is exemplary and there is bright acid, fine balance and serious length here while notes of sour cherries emerge at the finish. Enjoy this over the next 10 to 15 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.
