Wynns V&A Lane Shiraz 2021
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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V&A Lane is a well known road, long and straight (not as though there is much in Coonawarra to cause it to bend) and through the centre of the famed terra rossa soil, dividing the electorates of Victoria and Albert. The average age of the Shiraz vines here is touching the half century. The fruit from here is early ripening, for Coonawarra, and usually seen as part of the fresh and red-fruited spectrum. The colour is a bright crimson, while the nose immediately brings to mind handfuls of freshly turned earth, with milk chocolate, aniseed, bay leaves, raspberries and coffee grinds. Seamless in style, the palate moves more to black cherry notes with good oak integration, very fine tannins and impeccable balance. A fine regional Shiraz which will drink well for the next 8 to 10 years, and no doubt longer from good cellars.
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.
