Watkins Clarendon/Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2018
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- $50
- Drink by: 2036
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From a superb vintage, this is impressively structured and benefits from the extra time in the cellar. It is a blend of Clarendon and Adelaide Hills Shiraz. Opaque maroon, the nose offers aromas of plums, spices, Christmas cake, herbs, red apples, chocolate and warm earth. A hint of sweet vanillin oak is still evident but integration proceeds apace. Finely balanced, this retains its elegance. There is a long and lingering finish with silky tannins. A good future here, the wine should drink well for the next six to twelve 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.
