Pirramimma Border Clan Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Deep ruby/maroon in colour, this is exciting stuff. From an excellent vintage in McLaren Vale, the wine has impressive oak integration, which is still proceeding. A wine which is a slow burn and promises much for the future. The nose reveals notes of mocha, coffee beans, licorice, spices, root vegetables, chocolate, vanilla and cigar box touches. Delicious drinking, a very fine example of a warm climate Cabernet Sauvignon, benefiting from slightly cooler conditions than sometimes encountered here. This is richly flavoured, has good focus, is well balanced, with excellent length and sleek tannins. Enjoy it over the next ten to fifteen 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.
