Zonte’s Footstep Age of Enlightenment Shiraz 2020
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- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Shiraz from McLaren Vale which spent a year and a half maturing in a mix of new and older French oak puncheons, this is a star. A dark red/maroon hue here, this is big, rich and bold. Full of flavour with aromas of chocolate, mocha, licorice, tobacco leaves, dry herbs, cassis and smoked meats, the wine is seamless with abundant, sleek tannins. It has excellent length and maintains the intensity for the full journey. An absolutely cracking wine for enjoying over the next decade.
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.
