Allinda Wines Yarra Valley Cabernets 2016
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Always good to find wines available with some serious development (for what it is worth, the current release Grange is younger than this wine). The blend here is Cabernet Sauvignon 47%, Petit Verdot 26%, Cabernet Franc 17% and Merlot 10%. The juice was hand plunged in open fermenters, with 20% of it undergoing post fermentation maceration. Subsequently, it received 24 months maturation, with twelve of those months in French coopered European oak barriques. Deep red, the nose gives aromas of olives, dark fruits, cedar/cigar box notes and spices. A hint of warm earth with notes of red cherries intertwined with those darker fruits with good focus. Hints of beef stock and soy on the palate. Bright acidity helps carry good length through to fine tannins on the finish. Even though the wine already has some development, it can easily be cellared for a further 6 to 10 years, probably longer.
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.
