Organic Hill Founders Release McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
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- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Again, preservative free and made in the certified organic and biodynamic manner, this is from the very fine vintage of 2024. From McLaren Vale fruit. Opaque maroon in colour, the nose does reveal a touch of vanillin oak, but it is well integrated and forms a complimentary part of the wine’s structure. There are notes of aniseed, chocolate, black cherries, coffee grinds, tobacco leaves and dried herbs. The wine has good concentration, bright acidity and reveals its intensity for the full journey, through to the fine, firm tannins on the finish. Definitely a wine of promise and we can expect much from it over the next ten to twelve 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.
