Auswan Creek 1908 Limited Selection Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet 2019
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- Drink by: 2022-2030
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As with all the ‘1908’ series, this is made with fruit from vines well over a century in age. Hand harvested and whole bunch fermentation and seriously impressive stuff. This is dense blue/black in colour. The nose is richly flavoured, plush and ripe. Vanillin notes with black olives, blackberries, cassis, coffee beans and cloves. There is a lovely sweet core of chocolate/mocha. Very good length here and the intensity is maintained throughout. A supple texture with lavishly silky tannins. This has many years ahead of it in a good cellar and will show further improvement.
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.
