Angas & Bremer Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A really delicious style of Cabernet from Langhorne Creek, this is cracking drinking now and will continue to be for some time. A bottle of this at your friends’ next gourmet barbecue and you will be more popular than any politician on the planet – not that it would be much of an achievement. The colour is a vibrant magenta as the nose gives us notes of tobacco leaves, chocolate, blackberries, dried herbs, aniseed and cedar. Has balance and direction, with a supple and seamless palate and a creamy texture, finishing with silky tannins. A warmer style, richly flavoured, there is no reason that this won’t provide pleasure for the next eight to ten years, if you have the patience. But that does not mean it is not generously flavoured and ready for drinking now. Stunning value.
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.
