Byron and Harold The Partners Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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Another very fine Cabernet Sauvignon from the Great Southern region. Machine harvesting, destemming and crushing into static fermenters for six to eight days cold soaking, before fermentation with twice daily pumping over. Pressed to barrel for malo and then twenty months maturation in French oak. Colour is magenta/purple. The nose does offer a touch of the bell pepper/vegetal notes, which tends to divide the crowd – a real love-it-or-love-it-not-quite-so-much characteristic. Bay leaves and dark berries, leather and cocoa powder, there is good structure here and the focus is impressive. Excellent length too and more dark berries emerge on the palate. With firm tannins, expect this to cellar very well for at least 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.
