Bec Hardy The Best of Both Worlds Cabernet 2021
- 90
- $20
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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A South Australian blend of the always popular Cabernet, this is cracking value. Dark garnet, this is bright and fresh, yet with depth. Notes of raspberries, spices, tobacco leaves, darker fruits and milk chocolate with a supple texture and fine tannins that make it ideal for drinking at any stage over the next three to four years. Sometimes, I think the colourful fun labels do the wine inside a disservice, people tend to think that the wine can’t really be serious, nor any good. This series swiftly disproves that theory.
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.
