Pertaringa Tipsy Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2023-2043
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This is from a 1.7 hectare vineyard in the Blewitt Springs sub-region of McLaren Vale, facing east, with the vines first planted back in 1999. This slightly elevated district provides a more elegant style, although from McLaren Vale, such terms are all rather relative. The wine sees a percentage of new French oak and undergoes an extended maturation. Inky black/maroon hue. Notes of warm earth, chocolate, bay leaves, aniseed, dry herbs and blackcurrants. This is dense but finely balanced with soft and yet abundant tannins, excellent balance and impressive length. This is a big, rich, full-throated Cabernet which will provide pleasure for fifteen to twenty 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.
