Byron and Harold The Partners Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Really impressive stuff here and a great advertisement for how good Great Southern Cabernet can be – I loved it. Machine harvesting here with the fruit destemmed and crushed into static fermenters for a couple of days cold soaking. Twice daily pumpovers, then pressing into barrel for malolactic fermentation followed by 18 months of maturation in French oak.
The colour is maroon/bruised plum. Notes of cigar boxes, brambles, dark berries, chocolate, blackberries, spices and even an intriguing hint of orange rind – a really appealing nose. This is still young but has such good focus. Balanced and long, it lingers beautifully. This has a decade ahead of it and so much to like.
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.
