Ziegler Fire Clay Grenache 2022
- 92
- $27
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Naming a wine ‘Fire Clay’ after bricks designed to withstand high temperatures sounds rather ominous (unless one is a climate denier), but put that to one side and instead, revel in yet another fine Grenache from this great region and a superb vintage. What more could anyone want? The colour is a vibrant crimson. The nose is a glorious array of strawberries, raspberries and most especially cherries. With bright acidity and very good length, there are also soft and silky tannins. Delicious stuff and those cherries really step up on the palate. It will easily cellar for three to five years but hard not to open it now.
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.
