Vinaceous Red Right Hand Shiraz Tempranillo Grenache 2023

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  • $23
  • Drink by: 2025-2033

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A variation on the usual GSM blend, with Tempranillo included here, instead of the usual Mataro. The fruit is sourced from Margaret River (70%) and Frankland River (30%). The blend is 41% Shiraz, 34% Tempranillo and 25% Grenache. The wine spent ten months maturing in older French oak. Magenta purple in colour, there is a most alluring nose with notes of raspberries, bay leaves, dried herbs, cherries, spices and kirsch. There is good concentration throughout, and impressive length and persistence, through to fine tannins. Enjoy this over the next six to eight years.

Ken Gargett
Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Ken Gargett
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Variety: Red Wine, Grenache, Shiraz, Tempranillo
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines