Angus the Bull Black Angus Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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100% Cabernet all from Heathcote, the yield from the 2024 season was typically low, under two tonnes per acre. The vineyard which provided this fruit was the Colbinabbin Vineyard. The grapes were destemmed and fermented in stainless steel, before a cold soak for eighteen days. Pressing was into French oak barrels, 21% of which were new, and maturation was for one year. Under Diam. An opaque maroon, this is richly flavoured. Save this one for your best wagyu, not just your mate’s barbie (no disrespect to your friends). The nose gives us notes of blackberries, blueberries, coffee beans, bay leaves and aniseed. There are notes of vanillin oak evident, which has integrated impressively. The wine has both balance and length and maintains its intensity throughout, finishing with fine tannins. So much to like here. Enjoy this over the next ten to fifteen 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.
