Parker Estate Terra Rossa Cabernet Franc 2025
- 92
- $34
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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This is a new release for the Parker Estate and an exciting one, as Cab Franc done well is a delicious style. From the Estate’s Abbey Vineyard, maturation was for seven months in a mix of older oak, 400-litre eggs and 500-litre puncheons. 120 dozen made. Dark vibrant purple in colour, red fruits are to the fore here. We have dried herbs, raspberries and cherries. This is a wine of medium length, which is fresh and attractive and delivers delicious drinking, even at this early stage. A line fine of acidity runs through to sleek tannins. Enjoy this 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.
