Auswan Creek Diplomat 60 Year Old Vines Langhorne Creek Cabernet Shiraz 2019
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- Drink by: 2022-2036
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The great Aussie red blend is done superbly here. Very dark purple in colour, it offers concentrated aromas with notes of dark berries, bergamot, cloves, spices and mulberries. Plums, florals and blackberries all make appearances. It is melding extremely well and there are some attractive chocolate notes emerging on the palate. Intense, seamless plus a lovely flick of acidity which helps carry the wine to a lengthy finish with very fine tannins. Those tannins are quite abundant but melt away. The finish has serious persistence. This is a joy now and has at least fifteen more good years ahead of it.
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.
