LOT 94 BSR Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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BSR stands for Blewett Springs Road, giving us a clue as to the McLaren Vale subregion from which these grapes hail. The wine spent fifteen months in a mix of new and older French oak hogsheads for maturation. A very dark purple colour, this is a slightly austere style but the nose still offers notes of chocolate, dry herbs, warm earth, plums, tobacco leaves, aniseed, graphite and black fruits. There is good direction, right through to the sleek tannins on a lingering finish. Fine acidity is evident throughout, and well balanced. Enjoy it over the next 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.
