Bec Hardy Garden Series Cabernet Sauvignon Barossa Valley 2021
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2025
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Delicious warm climate Cab, proving such a thing is most definitely possible. The colour here is a deep maroon. There is the merest flick of oak still evident on the nose, adding to the many components contributing to the complexity of the wine. A fleshy style, there are notes of roast meats, raspberries, cranberries, leather and dried herbs. The wine has a pleasing supple texture and impressive length with good focus, sleek tannins and we see more notes of strawberries emerge on the palate. This will provide excellent drinking, full of flavour, over the next six to ten months.
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.
