Bec Hardy Family Crest Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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A static stainless fermenter was used here, with the grapes spending nine days on skins, for those who enjoy the technical side of things. Eight months in older French oak hogsheads. Dark maroon hue, the nose offers aromas of tobacco leaves, blackberries, soy, licorice, bergamot, chocolate and coffee grinds. Focused, with bright acidity running the full length of the journey, there are satiny tannins and the wine offers good length. This is still very much in the youthful camp and certainly promises more for the future. Very attractive and should remain so for the next ten to twelve 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.
