Biscay Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A step up here for the Biscay Road range, with this fine Cabernet spending a year and a half in French oak puncheons. The vineyard, 64 acres with a range of red varieties, is based on clay in the Tanunda/Bethany sub-regions. This wine is a deep blood red. There are notes of bay leaves, black cherries, blackberries, plums and hints of chocolate. There is just a touch of toasty oak evident. The wine offers us a supple texture and good length and there is a degree of that typical Cabernet austerity. Well structured, this is a wine with good focus and fine, firm tannins. For drinking over the next six to eight 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.
