Dowie Doole DD Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Warm climate Cabernet has a place, especially from such a superb vintage as this. The wine spent time, eighteen months, in a mix of French oak hogsheads and puncheons, 5% new, with the rest between two and ten years of age. The fruit came from a mix of sub-regions, Blewitt Springs and Tatachilla. A deep red/garnet hue here. The nose gives us black fruits, bay leaves, kitchen spices, mushrooms, warm earth and tobacco leaves. A savoury style of medium intensity, good balance and gentle persistence, with sleek tannins at the finish. The wine has a line of fine acidity. Enjoy this over the next 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.
