Millon Clare’s Secret Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A single vineyard wine, from the estate’s Armagh Vineyard in the Clare Valley, the vines were planted in 1998. This is from a sensational vintage. Maturation was in French oak barrels including a percentage which were new. Opaque magenta in colour, the wine still exhibits some toasty oak notes, but they have been well handled and merely add to the enjoyment. Quite a fleshy style with notes of plums, mushrooms, tobacco leaves, blackberries and dried herbs, there is a slightly tarry finish. Fine tannins, a wine of medium length and well balanced, enjoy this over the next six to 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.
