Zonte’s Footstep Hills are Alive Shiraz 2022
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- Drink by: 2025-2033
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As the team says, the flavours here are a few of their favourite things. Who isn’t channelling their inner Julie Andrews at the moment? From the Adelaide Hills, which may well be alive but are probably a little less covered in snow than their musical siblings, this is a most appealing cooler climate Shiraz. This has a dark garnet hue with a nose revealing aromas of aniseed, bay leaves, leather, raspberries, warm earth, cherries and dried herbs. A medium bodied wine of medium length, there are fine tannins on the finish. This is from the savoury and elegant end of the red wine spectrum. The palate shows some sour cherry notes on that lingering finish. A most attractive wine with six to eight years of good drinking ahead of it.
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.
