Angas & Bremer Shiraz Cabernet 2022
- 93
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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For me, this is exactly what Langhorne Creek is all about – utterly delicious reds which are cracking value and just ever so drinkable. A 60/40 blend, there is so much to love here. Garnet maroon in colour, there is a powerful nose. We have notes of cloves, licorice, coffee grinds, mocha, axle grease, warm earth and black fruits. Good concentration throughout, this is a rather burly style with some real power. A seamless, generous and luscious palate with sleek tannins and amazing length. This is not a wine of finesse – rather one which is richly flavoured and quite powerful. A ten year proposition, if you want to hang on to some for that long. Brilliant 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.
