Thorn Clarke Shotfire Collectors Heritage Edition Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The team have dipped into the past to provide stocks of one of their favourite wines, from what just might be the best vintage of the century. If you missed out first time, jump on board now. It still represents excellent value. Maturation is in a mix of American barrels and hogsheads, 40% of the hogsheads new. Maturation is for a period of fourteen months. An opaque maroon, the extra time in the cellar has ensured an absolutely gorgeous nose, plush and generous, soft and approachable. We have notes of chocolate, mocha, cassis, blackberries, licorice and coffee beans. There is good intensity throughout, including a fine line of acidity running the full journey. A wine chock full of everything. There is exceptional length here and the wine will continue to provide pleasure for at least another fifteen 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.
