Wild and Wilder The Opportunist Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2022
- 93
- $22
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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No secret that I am a big fan of the red wines of Langhorne Creek and this is another very fine example, providing cracking drinking. Inky maroon in colour, the aromas are a mix of black fruits, licorice, axle grease, campfire notes and chocolate. The wine is supple, sleek and seductive with very good length. Fine, silky tannins tie things together, leaving everything well balanced. This will drink beautifully for the next four to eight years. Absolutely 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.
