Windowrie Botobolar Shiraz 2024
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2025
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From the Central Ranges, this name has been synonymous with organics, and preservative free wines for many years. They use the lean, green bottle as well. Theirs was Australia’s first certified organic vineyard. The colour here is a vibrant purple. The nose offers aromas weaving through black cherries, plums, herbs, spices and coffee grinds. Fresh and very youthful, the palate sees some chocolate emerging. This is a wine with a supple texture and medium length which is attractive drinking now.
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.
