Paisley Barossa Valley Corduroy Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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I am advised by friends that corduroy trousers is apparently an appalling fashion faux pas, although it might have helped if they had told me that many years ago. I always rather liked my corduroy slacks. What will never be a fashion faux pas is good Barossa Cab and this is certainly that. Warm climate Cabs will never replicate what we see from regions like Bordeaux, and even Margaret River or Coonawarra, but they will give us wines chock full of flavour. This is an opaque maroon colour with a nose exhibiting notes of cocoa powder, tobacco leaves, chocolate, leather and coffee grinds. A slightly fleshy style, we see aniseed, soy and cloves emerge on the palate. This is a cracking warm climate Cabernet, with balance, length and very fine tannins. Enjoy over the next six to eight 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.
