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Koonowla Bass Hill Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Mataro Petit Verdot 2020

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The Bass Hill Vineyard provides the fruit for many of the team’s top wines, both those which are straight varietals and those which are blends. This is very much in the latter category, with the team noting that top Bordeaux is their inspiration here. Hence we have a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (36%), Malbec (22%), Petit Verdot (22%), Carménère (10%) and Cabernet Franc (10%), matured in French oak. The colour is a dark magenta and there are lifted aromas of violets, chocolate, tobacco leaves and blackcurrants. There are also hints of vanilla with the oak integration proceeding well. Juicy acidity, very good length and excellent balance, this is a superb ‘Cab and friends’. Enjoy it over the next ten to fifteen years.

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