Bec Hardy Coonawarra Garden Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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From one of the world’s great Cabernet regions, this wine is a near opaque maroon. The nose is generous with notes of dark chocolate, spices, mint, cloves and black olives topped with dried herbs and a touch of truffles. Nicely balanced as we move to the palate and see the emergence of aniseed and black fruits. Abundant tannins which are certainly fine, but they do exist in force provide very good length. For drinking over the next eight to ten years and there is room for improvement over that period.
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.
