Devil’s Lair Dance with the Devil Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2021-2028
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Cabernet from one of the vineyards located in the south of the region has been given extra time on skins. A dollop of Malbec has been added as well. Matured for 16 months in a mix of new and older French barriques. The colour is a deep, vibrant purple. The aroma offers plums, mulberries, ripe black fruits and cassis notes. This is a seriously impressive nose. The palate has real intensity, while remaining immaculately balanced, refined and elegant. There are very fine tannins here. The length is good, but it does fade a smidge right on the finish, perhaps fractionally earlier than anticipated. It is still a cracking wine and great value.
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.
