Ulithorne Dona Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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McLaren Vale Shiraz from a thrilling vintage, this wine sees a little over a year in older French oak. An opaque maroon with a nose offering blackberries, florals, hints of mulberries, aniseed, leather, cold tea, bay leaves and cassis. Ripe in style with an understated but evident line of fine acidity. A wine of medium length, this will provide pleasure for the next six to eight years. Put simply, this is just a really good drink.
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.
