Warramunda Liv Zak Syrah 2020
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The team here use both whole berries and whole bunches in the ferment, which is with wild yeasts. 100% Yarra Valley fruit, the wine spent fourteen months in French oak barriques. Love the label. The colour here is a blood red/crimson hue. The nose gives us animal skins, dried herbs, warm earth, spices, blackberries and aniseed. An appealingly supple texture, there is a lovely juicy palate with a fine line of acidity and very good length, with a lingering finish. A seamless structure here, this will drink beautifully for 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.
