Dowie Doole The Architect Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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From the team’s estate vineyard at Blewitt Springs, one of the most highly regarded sub-regions of McLaren Vale, this hails specifically from Block E. 1,300 bottles produced and under cork, the colour is an inky dark maroon. Good concentration and extraction is immediately apparent. Dark berries, soy, tobacco leaves, coffee grinds, spices and chocolate with an underlying hint of cassis. Seamless and seductive texture, good focus, silky tannins, bright acidity and excellent balance. The palate sees notes of licorice emerge. A wine with at least ten years of providing drinking pleasure ahead of it.
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.
