Angas & Bremer Malbec 2023
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Single varietal Malbec is continuing to etch a niche for itself among good reds, though it does still exist mainly to blend, at least in this country. From Langhorne Creek, this is an absolutely ideal offering if you want to see just what the grape can do when let off the leash. The colour is a gleaming purple. The nose, ripe and rich, and exhibits notes of plums, cranberries, chocolate, espresso, mulberries, delicatessen meats, blackcurrants and bay leaves. Full flavoured, there is a seamless and plush palate with satiny tannins and excellent length. Enjoy over the next ten years. Definitely worth seeking out, especially for anyone curious as to just what Malbec can offer.
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.
