Elderton Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Harvested from estate vineyards in the Barossa, Nuriootpa (62%) and Craneford (38%). The wine spent a year and a half maturing in older French puncheons, from a superb vintage for the region. Dark maroon colour, the nose reveals notes of cloves, chocolate, warm earth, mushrooms, tobacco leaves, dry herbs, cloves and blackberries. There is some serious underlying power here, and early complexity. A seamless structure with intensity maintained for the full length of the wine, through to the very fine tannins. This is a wine which will easily provide pleasure over the next ten to twelve years and improve further over that time.
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.
