Yalumba Homefullness Barossa Shiraz 2021
- 91
- $22
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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This is a wine made in partnership with Forage Built, an organisation helping to fight homelessness, hence the name. From a range of Barossa vineyards, the finished wine spent nine months in a mix of French, American and Hungarian oak. Dark maroon hue, there are notes of mushrooms, licorice, soy and warm earth – heading down the path of the savoury styles. A wine of medium length with cherries and a hint of chocolate emerging on the palate, with some choc biscuit oak notes. Really needs some time in the glass to fully open up. Enjoy now and for the next four to five years.
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.
