The Group The Murder McLaren Vale Shiraz 2020
- 93
- $34
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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When last we looked at this wine, it was the 2017 vintage and it performed well. This latest vintage is more than a match for it. A big, bold, gutsy McLaren Vale Shiraz, just the sort of wine which so many consumers love. Sourced from various growers, as is the way of The Group, this is an inky black/purple. Lifted aromatics impress, with plums, cloves, warm earth, leather, black olives, good integration of oak, cassis and blackcurrants. As we move to the palate, more of a choc/cherry note emerges. A soft texture, balanced with crunchy acidity and slightly firm tannins, there is excellent persistence here. Still very youthful, it certainly has a good future for any well cellared bottles. If elegant Pinot is your thing, perhaps look elsewhere, but if richly flavoured reds are for you, this is worth chasing.
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.
