Lange Estate Providence Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The Providence Road range, also from Frankland River, is a step up from the team’s Fifth Generation wines, although both series offer both value and flavour. This Cabernet has a maroon hue to it, with a nose exhibiting notes of chocolate, licorice, ripe plums, mulberries, truffles and coffee beans. This is a powerful style of Cab, full flavoured and lacking nothing, with focus and direction, a line of acidity running the full journey and finishes with fine tannins. There is good length here and the oak is deftly handled. The wine will drink very well for at least 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.
