Pepper Tree Wrattonbully and Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $23
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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The fruit here is sourced from the neighbouring Coonawarra and Wrattonbully regions, from an excellent vintage in both. The colour is a deep mauve with a magenta rim. It is immediately apparent that the wine is offering some of that Cabernet austereness. The nose has notes of mushrooms, blackberries, tobacco leaves and chocolate, with a flick of dried herbs, notably sage. The oak is well integrated here. This is quite a powerful style of wine, muscular in structure, and finishing with firm tannins. A lot to like now, more to like in the future, one suspects. It will easily handle ten years, at which time it really will look like an amazing bargain.
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.
