Cape Barren Old Vine McLaren Vale Grenache 2024
- 92
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Old vine Grenache from regions like McLaren Vale continue to enthral wine lovers. Easy to see why with gems like this. The colour is garnet/pale crimson. On the nose, we have strawberries, dried herbs, warm earth, red fruits, florals, cherries and bay leaves. The wine is fresh, with fine acidity and a sleek texture and tannins. Medium weight and decent length here, this will drink beautifully for at least another half dozen years. Long may the rise of Grenache continue.
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.
