Three Dark Horses Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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McLaren Vale Shiraz from the highly regarded Blewitt Springs sub-region, the vines are aged anywhere between twenty and fifty years. The team included 10% whole bunches in the fermentation and maturation was in oak, mostly French, for twenty months. 25% of the oak was new. The colour here is deep maroon. On the nose we have notes of chocolate, mushrooms, cocoa powder, plums and mulberries, with a flick of oak with the integration proceeding well. A wine of medium length through to satiny tannins, the freshness is still evident. The wine is juicy and approachable and full of flavour. It will provide delicious drinking over the next six to ten 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.
