Campos di Viento Tempranillo 2022
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Criminally underpriced, this is a ripe, delicious and ever-so-generous Tempranillo. A deep blood red hue, the nose weaves through roast meats, florals, red fruits, raspberries, tomato bush notes, dark berries, delicatessen aromas, soy and beef stock. Red fruits for sure, but there are also blackberries. Almost ridiculous quality and flavour for a wine at this price. It is quite a burly, full-flavoured style with good length, finishing with fine tannins, giving the wine good grip. Notes of cherries and earth emerge at the end. One for a hearty meal, carnivores preferred. Six 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.
