Watkins Shiraz Langhorne Creek 2021
- 91
- $24
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Shiraz from Langhorne Creek – expect a delicious, full flavoured red. Dark maroon colour, the nose is bold and rich with flavours of cloves, leather, cassis, chocolate, delicatessen meats and blackberries. A little spice and a flick of oak. The wine is well balanced, with soft tannins, good length, and a lingering finish. Terrific value here, this wine has some real exuberance and will drink very well for the next half dozen years and more. Delicious.
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.
