Wolf Blass Grey Label McLaren Vale Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2023 - 2031
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If this were twenty years ago, we’d all be talking about a red like this being exactly why Aussie wines were making such a successful mark on international markets. All flavour, richness, generosity. Today, we expect it.
The colour here is so black that it appears purple and blue. Ripe notes; perhaps a little more coiled and brooding at this early stage than the Langhorne Creek blend, though it is still very approachable now, as one expects with this maker. The flavours do soon emerge – chocolate, truffles, warm earth, mulberries. This is a wine with drive and focus that is nicely balanced and has excellent length. An absolute cracker and it should drink well and improve over the next decade.
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.
