Vinaceous Voodoo Moon Malbec 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Always great names and fabulous labels from these guys, not to mention cracking value wines. This is an almost equal blend of fruit from Frankland River and Margaret River (a fraction more of the former). The final wine sees ten months maturation in French oak barriques. An inky dark maroon colour here, the nose exhibits notes of chocolate and cloves, dried herbs, dark berries and tobacco leaves. There is concentration and intensity – it is no shrinking violet. Firm grip here – a wine one of our cricket commentators might dub the ‘parade of power’. The palate sees the emergence of more mulberry notes. A persistent finish, with balance and very fine tannins, this is a wine for enjoying over the next six to eight 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.
