Brown Brothers Patricia Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
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- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The King Valley in Victoria provides half of the fruit for this very fine Cabernet Sauvignon, Brown Brothers’ prestige release, the 22nd of this wine. Just over 1/3rd of the fruit hails from Bendigo with the remainder from the Yarra Valley. The wine spent twenty months in French oak barriques, 40% of which were new, for maturation. The colour is an inky dark maroon. The nose offers notes of black cherries, mulberries, spices, cigar box hints, blackberries licorice and plums. Power and concentration are the hallmark on the palate. This is a wine of decent length, leading through to furry tannins on a lingering finish. It surely has its best years in front of it. If you can leave it for three or four years and then drink it over the following twelve to fifteen, it will reward.
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.
