Grant Burge Nebu 2024
- 94
- $105
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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Nebu is a Barossa version of the great Australian red blend, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, the former normally sitting around 60% of the combination. Maturation is in French oak hogsheads. The final wine is a barrel selection. An opaque maroon hue, this is still very youthful, but surely a wine with a promising future. We have notes of chocolate and kirsch, plums, licorice, warm earth, red apples, soy, cloves and blackcurrants. The oak is well handled and there is a core of sweet black cherries running throughout. A wine which is taut, tense and poised, with very good length, it finishes with sleek tannins. The wine is well balanced at all times. Well cellared, it should easily provide pleasure for fifteen to twenty years. One of the better examples of this wine.
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.
