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Kirrihill Regional Series Clare Cabernet 2022

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The team selected fruit from several Cabernet sites in the Clare Valley which then underwent small batch fermentation for eight to ten days. Maturation was largely in tanks, with a small percentage in a mix of French and American oak. Dark magenta hue. The nose offers notes of dark chocolate, roast meats, cigar boxes, dried herbs, soy, aniseed and black fruits. Delightfully fresh and energetic, this is still very much in its youth. The palate sees cloves notes, with good length, fine tannins, and this intensity remains for the full journey. This is very much in the savoury style. Love the length, this should drink well for the next eight to ten years, but be in no rush. Eight to ten years. Terrific value.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic