Willunga 100 Cabernet Shiraz 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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McLaren Vale provides the fruit here, from two vineyards – Cabernet from the Seaview sub-region and Shiraz from the Whites Valley district. Fermentation in stainless steel open fermenters with up to two weeks on skins, before basket pressing to tanks to finish. After the ferment, the wine went to French oak, of which 10% was new, for malo and maturation. An inky maroon, this is plush, exuberant and quite delicious. Chocolate and cherries are to the fore here, with soy, aniseed, dry herbs and delicatessen meats. The wine is balanced, of mid-length and with fine tannins. Enjoying any time over the next three to five years is ideal. An attractive wine.
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.
