Y Series Lighter Shiraz 8% 2023
- 91
- $16
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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This is definitely worth grabbing, but note that the 2024 is about to hit the shelves as well. 8% alcohol, but you really would never know it. The winemakers have done a cracking job with this wine. Maroon garnet in colour, this is delightfully aromatic with aromas of cherries galore. There are also notes of chocolate, mulberries and florals. The texture is supple and sleek, with satiny tannins. This really is quite delicious. Serve this to those friends – we all have them – who’d turn up their nose at a low alcohol wine without telling them what it is. They’ll love it. As good a low alcohol job as I can recall. Drink over the next two to three years. And keep an eye out for that 2024.
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.
