Greenock Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $65
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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From a single vineyard in the Barossa, the vines are in excess of seventy years of age. The wine spent 22 months maturing in French oak and is bottled under cork. The colour here is a deep magenta. There is quite a meaty nose with black fruits, plums, aniseed, bergamot, black cherries and smoked meats. The wine is rich and chocolatey on the palate and we see the emergence of tobacco leaves among the flavours. Very good length here with sleek tannins, this is a rich and full flavoured style from the Barossa. Enjoy it over the next ten to twelve 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.
