Vineyard Road The Edge Barossa Valley Shiraz 2017
- 94
- $85
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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The wine spent nineteen months maturing in a mix of French and American oak, with fruit originally sourced from the floor of the Barossa Valley. Inky dark in colour, we have notes of warm earth, chocolate, mocha, blackcurrants, coffee beans and mocha. Good focus and intensity, this is dense throughout but remains finely balanced at all times. Very fine, silky tannins and excellent length, a wine to enjoy over the next eight 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.
