There really is something fishy about the 2008 Fat Fish Shiraz from the irrepressible Barossa Valley. It\u2019s not the dark (if not almost black!) colour of the wine that beguiles the palate. And there\u2019s nothing unusual about a wine conceived in the region showing such deep ripe berries that rise to a crescendo on the palate and ebb to a trickle of fine tannins on a wave of the conductor\u2019s baton.<\/p>\n
No, my innate suspicion is a product of the price \u2013 it just doesn\u2019t seem right that such an easy to drink and well-crafted wine that has only the slightest taint on the back palate would retail at no more than $18.00 a bottle.<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u2019m just too skeptical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There really is something fishy about the 2008 Fat Fish Shiraz from the irrepressible Barossa Valley. It\u2019s not the dark (if not almost black!) colour of the wine that beguiles the palate. And there\u2019s nothing unusual about a wine conceived in the region showing such deep ripe berries that rise to a crescendo on the…
Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[64,80,10,112,8,5,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisschultz.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}