Mitolo Jester Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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From a cracking vintage for the McLaren Vale region, the wine spent a year maturing in a mix of 80% French oak hogsheads and 20% American oak hogsheads. A deep red colour here, the nose swirls about with a mix of tobacco leaves, animal hides, soy and cola, warm earth, cloves and black fruits, all the while with a leathery undertow. A wine of medium length, good concentration and abundant tannins, this will drink well now and at any time over the next eight years. Has the generosity one can see in some warm climate Cabs. Anyone buying this wine will not think they have wasted their money.
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.
