Pepper Tree Limited Release Black Label Wrattonbully Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Malbec Petit Verdot 2020
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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From the excellent Wrattonbully region, this is the quintessential ‘Bordeaux Bland’ with this mix of grapes. Another fine Limited Release, it spent time in French oak. Deep red in colour, we have chocolate, licorice, black olives, cloves and black fruits. There are also dusty tannins on a long, concentrated finish. Real power here, though the balance makes it rather deceptive. Muscular in style with good length, which reflects the blend and the vintage well, this will certainly improve over the next four to six 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.
