Brown Brothers Patricia Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
- 95
- $62
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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These cabernets from Brown Brothers have over the years moved towards more complex wines of great elegance and varietal character. This is a classic case in point. The fruit is sourced from a number of different vineyards – Bendigo 52%, King Valley 28%, Great Western 13% and Wrattonbully 7%. The result is a firmly structured classically defined cabernet displaying those beautiful rich blackcurrant characters evident on the nose and palate with a lift of cigar box that says cabernet. It holds a firm chalky tannin thread with a distinct savoury oak influence. This is cabernet with attitude that works so well and is just starting to hit its straps after a couple of years bottle ageing, with plenty more time ahead.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
