Brokenwood Wildwood Road Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 94
- $100
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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The Brokenwood team do not let borders – either for wine regions or states – diminish their enthusiasm for presenting the finest wines. And if you want to make a great Cab, you are not limiting yourself to the Hunter. For all its glories, this is not Cabernet territory. So, off to Margaret River we go. The result is more than worthwhile. The wine spent two weeks on skins and then subsequently, 18 months in French oak, of which 20% was new. This is their 8th release of this wine which is an inky purple hue with notes of spices, tobacco leaves, dry herbs, chocolate, blackberries, cassis and soy. There is good concentration here and firm, ever-so-slightly gravelly tannins. Focus and excellent length too, and the oak is already well integrated while fresh acidity runs the length. This still has a decade plus of pleasure ahead of it. A cracker.
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.
