Hardys HRB Cabernet Sauvignon D696 2020
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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Under screw cap, this is a Cabernet incorporating fruit from Margaret River (88%), McLaren Vale (10%) and Frankland River (2%). Deep garnet hue, we have aromas of chocolate, coffee beans, soy, cigar box notes, blackberries, dry herbs, licorice, dry herbs, bergamot, spices and leather. The wine has notable savoury notes along with a line of fine acidity, through to very fine tannins. Good focus here, balance and concentration, and the palate moves to notes of cassis, tobacco leaves and graphite. This will drink well for 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.
