Dowie Doole Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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From the team’s estate in McLaren Vale, this exhibits a deep red hue. There are notes of warm earth and undergrowth, with ripe fruits and good intensity, along with blackcurrants, tobacco leaves, soy and aniseed. There is good concentration throughout this slightly old-fashioned style of McLaren Vale red, though the flavours are very much upfront at this early stage. There are some chocolate notes on the palate. A wine with promise and should be even better in two to three years – then drink it for the following six to 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.
