3 Rings Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 91
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The fruit here is sourced from the estate’s Biscay Road Vineyard. The wine spent time in a mix of new and older American oak before bottling. Twenty bucks for a thoroughly gluggable Barossa Cab is always going to be great buying. Even better, this is from a great Barossa vintage. The colour is just what I would expect a wine dark sea to look like (of course, that may mean different things to different people). More prosaically, a dark crimson magenta. The nose gives aromatics weaving through warm earth, licorice, cloves, soy, black cherries, black fruits and animal skins. Intense and muscular, this is a concentrated, powerful style. A wine with length and punch and fine yet firm tannins. Enjoy it for at least the next six to eight years.
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.
