Bec Hardy Garden Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 93
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A warmer climate style of Cabernet, chock full of flavour and representing cracking value, the fruit for this wine hails from two of the region’s vineyards. Fermentation was in stainless steel before maturation in a mix of new French oak hogsheads (10%) and older French oak (90%). A purple magenta hue, the nose gives up notes of dried herbs, bay leaves, black cherries, blackberries, mulberries, licorice and leather. Seamless in style, there is good focus and length here, along with bright acidity and a lingering finish. This is delicious drinking and will continue to be over the next decade.
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.
