Byron & Harold Gravity Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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The final wine is a barrel selection, with maturation being over an extended period in French barriques, around one quarter new. The wine reflects just how special the 2023 vintage in this region is. The colour is a gleaming maroon/magenta. There is already evidence of complexity building and we have alluring aromas of spices, cassis, tobacco leaves, kirsch, charcuterie, blackberries, cigar boxes, plums and aniseed. This is really exciting stuff. There is excellent balance, immaculate oak integration and immense length. The wine finishes with lingering, silky tannins and a fine line of acidity running the journey. Can be cellared to advantage for the next fifteen to twenty 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.
