Byron & Harold The Partners Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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A very fine Cabernet, certainly one for the long haul, from the Great Southern region. The colour is a gleaming magenta red. There is intensity throughout this wine with appealing notes of tobacco leaves, mushrooms, smoked meats, black fruits, warm earth and dried herbs, supported by a touch of toasty oak. There is decent length here with good balance, finishing with chalky tannins. It would be worth cellaring the wine for three to four years and then drinking it over the following ten.
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.
