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Byron & Harold The Partners Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

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These guys might fly under the radar, but they shouldn’t. They continue to release seriously good wines, one after the other, and this is yet another. From the Great Southern region, the fruit is crushed into static fermenters with the team ensuring a proportion of whole berries. Twice daily pumpovers and a percentage of the wine remains on skins after fermentation. Then pressing to French oak barriques for maturation with the final blend a barrel selection. Purple/maroon in colour, this is an appealing mix of red and darker berries with some intriguing graphite notes. Also some hints of truffles, florals and tobacco leaves – the nose is a highlight. The structure confirms a well-made wine with excellent length and pinpoint focus. There are very fine, if ever-so-grainy tannins so it will drink well over the next decade and expect the score to rise over that period.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic