Earthworks Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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As with the Shiraz, the wine sees a blend of French and American oak, and again, from a superb vintage. This is fine example of what Cabernet can do in a warmer region like the Barossa in a good vintage. The colour is a deep but vibrant purple, while the nose gives us notes of cigar boxes, tobacco leaves, mushrooms, black fruits, aniseed and dry herbs. There is good concentration here, in a ripe, bold style of warm climate Cab. The palate sees a sweet core of mocha, cassis, vanilla and chocolate and this lifts the wine to a new level. Seamless, with very fine tannins and impressive distance. Drink now and for six to eight 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.
