Mitolo Jester Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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This wine, from a McLaren Vale vineyard, spent 13 months in a mix of older French (80%) and American (20%) oak hogsheads. A garnet red, the nose offers notes of smoked meats, warm earth, bay leaves, redcurrants, and cigar box characters. This is made in an earthy, even slightly rustic, style, with a mix of red and black fruits. A soft and generous palate with ripe flavours, this is a wine of medium length which will provide pleasure for the next three to four 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.
