Bec Hardy Lakeside Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 91
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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South Aussie Cabernet from the impressive 2024 vineyard, fermentation is in temperature controlled, stainless steel fermenters. The wine spent ten months maturing in older French oak. Dark plum in colour with a light crimson rim, there are lifted aromatics here. A flick of oak opens proceedings and then we have an array of aromas weaving through warm earth notes, coffee beans, bay leaves, dusty roads, plums, unearthed root vegetables and black fruits. There is decent length here and the wine finishes with abundant powdery tannins, while maintaining the intensity of flavour. For enjoying over the next eight years, and one could reasonably expect the score to rise during 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.
