Wynns Coonawarra Michael Shiraz 2021
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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This is Wynns prestige Shiraz release, Michael was David Wynn’s young son and this is a tribute to him. It is based on the legendary 1955 Michael Hermitage, a one-off Shiraz wine that is still considered one of our most iconic wines. From a brilliant vintage for Coonawarra, this is a stunning wine. Opaque maroon, the structure is impeccable with excellent balance, bright acidity, amazing length, ever-so-fine tannins and a seamlessness and seductiveness which runs the length. The nose exhibits notes of spices, even offering a flick of white pepper, as well as vanilla and nutmeg, coffee grinds, blackberries, beef stock and bay leaves. Still very youthful, expect the wine (and the score) to improve over the coming years. The wine is a fifteen to twenty year proposition.
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.
