Angullong Crossing Reserve Harriet 2022
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A fine example of the not very common blend of Sangiovese (40%), Sagrantino (30%) and Montepulciano (30%), from the Orange region. You have to think that this would even impress Italian winemakers. Fermentation for each variety was kept separate before blending and then a further maturation period of a year and a half in oak puncheons. The colour here is a deep magenta made in a very much savoury style, we have notes of dried herbs, coffee grinds, warm earth, florals, bay leaves and red cherries, along with hints of beef stock, soy and aniseed. There is a slippery texture, sleek tannins and a lingering finish with juicy red fruits throughout. Like this a lot. It should drink very well over the next six to eight years.
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.
