Coulter Wines Sangiovese Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The younger version of our local Super Tuscan previously noted, again with both varieties from the One Tree Hill Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. Both 2022 and 2021 are excellent vintages for the region and both show it here, especially the younger year. A dark garnet, there is more plushness and less of a savoury style here. Pick your preference – or drink them both. Black fruits, cassis, plums, vanillin notes from oak integration along with hints of nutmeg, and some chocolatey flavours to tie it all together. Fine balance and good length here, there are silky tannins on a lingering finish. Youthful now for sure, but a promising future and a wine which should provide pleasure for a decade.
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.
