Allegiance Wines The Foreman Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Sixteen days on skins before pressing, racked off lees, and then fermented in French oak for a year, 15% of which was new. This is an opaque but vibrant purple. Burly and concentrated with notes of chocolate, aniseed, dry herbs, blackberries and cloves. A hint of mocha and very well integrated, if cedary, oak. With a supple texture, decent length, with fine if furry tannins, this should provide thoroughly enjoyable drinking for eight to ten years. Indeed, the longer you leave the wine in the cellar before opening, the better as the score will lift over this time.
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.
