The Farm Barossa Valley Shiraz 2017
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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Barossa Shiraz has to be everyone’s favourite wine. This is an interesting one. Soft and exhibiting some dark berry and floral notes, with hints of chocolate, coffee grinds and black fruits. There is also some biscuity oak apparent, but it is very well integrated. On one hand, this wine is quite straightforward, even simple, but is so lovely to drink that such denigration hardly matters. All is forgiven with the chocolate and blackberry notes staying with us on the finish. Delicious.
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.
