Oakridge Hyde Park Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 93
- $48
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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Also from the Coldstream sub-region in the Yarra Valley, this is an impressive Cabernet Sauvignon, which has its best days ahead of it. Maturation is in French oak barrels, around one-third new. Purple/magenta in colour, the nose reveals aromas of tobacco leaves, florals, warm earth, black fruits, mushrooms, aniseed, beef stock, dried herbs, chocolate and blackcurrants. A savoury style with good intensity, this is a wine of medium length, finishing with very fine, almost dusty tannins. Giving it a year or two in the cellar before opening, and then a good decant, will be very much to its benefit. And yours.
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.
