D’Arenberg The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Again, traditional foot treading takes place 2/3rds of the way through fermentation, with the fermentation then completed in old French oak barriques and a maturation of twenty months. An opaque maroon hue, the aromas weave through dried herbs, black olives, bay leaves, licorice, chocolate, soy and coffee grinds. The wine opens with plushness and generosity and exhibits excellent extract. There are slick tannins on the finish, which does fade a little, but the wine is still thoroughly enjoyable drinking and should be that and more over the next ten 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.
