Haselgrove First Cut Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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20% new French oak, the remainder older French, is used in the maturation of this fine McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon, which hails from a superb vintage. A dark maroon hue, the nose reveals notes of tobacco leaves, cherries, dusty earth, dried herbs, blackcurrants, milk chocolate and even a hint of espresso. A wine of medium length, those chocolate notes really emerge to advantage on the palate. Neatly balanced, this finishes with fine tannins. Very attractive, drink this over the next eight to ten 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.
