Brown Hill Trafalgar Cabernet Merlot 2022
- 92
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A Cabernet dominant blend with Merlot, all from Margaret River, which sees the individual components treated separately before the final blending. This is a Cabernet Merlot of some serious elegance. Crimson red hue, this is a well-structured wine with notes of raspberries, spices, cherries, graphite and hints of animal fur. There is some grip here, fine though abundant tannins, carried with excellent length. A wine which will continue to provide pleasure for 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.
