Erin Eyes Ballycapple Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A Clare Valley Cabernet from a superb year, the colour here is a purple maroon. The aromas include tobacco leaves, blackberries, chocolate, dried currants, soy and aniseed. There is a hint of austerity here, with some serious power with abundant but quite firm tannins. It does need some time to blossom and will be better in three to four years, then drink well for ten. Over this time, expect the score to improve.
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.
