Mitchell Wines Sevenhill Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2021-2035
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The team at Mitchell’s like to think of this Cab, from their Sevenhill Vineyard, as an old fashioned, popular Claret style and there is something to that. Kudos to them for holding the wine back for a few years, as they do with others, before release and yet keeping prices so low. The wine sees extended maceration on skins for 40 days and is then aged in small French oak barrels for two years. It is bottled without filtration.
The wine offers a deep red colour with a slight brown on the rim. Beautifully aromatic, the nose offers a pleasing mix of strawberry, black cherry and blackcurrant notes with the latter proving the more dominant. Very well integrated oak with chocolate and fig hints. A mid-weight, rather elegant style which lets its flavours do the talking. Certainly not a brash, in-your-face red like so many we see. Attractive length with fine, slightly furry tannins. Quite delicious.
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.
