Zonte’s Footsteps Hills are Alive Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2023
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Just how many awards this wine will eventually tally, I have no idea, but I can tell you that the team deserves a gold medal for the number of Sound of Music puns and references they managed to jam into their marketing blurb. Still, who knows, it may prove to be one of your favourite things. Deep blood red/maroon, the colour of a brand new cricket ball before bat has been laid upon it. A savoury style with notes of mushrooms, cigar boxes, warm soil, root vegetables, cloves, soy, black fruits and leather. Sleek and supple, this is very well balanced, elegant in style, with fine, satiny tannins and good focus throughout. Quite delicious now and should continue to remain so over the next decade. Perfect for when the dog bites or the bee stings. Even better when they don’t.
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.
