Harewood Estate Great Southern Cabernet Shiraz 2019
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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The great Aussie red blend, this one is from the Great Southern region in the West. It spent eighteen months in French oak. The colour is a dark crimson with the nose giving us notes of cassis and plums, blackberries, licorice and dried herbs with tobacco leaves. Lifted flavours throughout, good ripeness, solid intensity and medium length here to enjoy for the next six to eight 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.
