Pirramimma Heritage Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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The components of this wine had between 14 and 18 months in French oak before the final blend was assembled. An opaque maroon hue, this wine is currently all about power and concentration. Personally, I think it needs a few years before you look at it but many will love it as is, a real blockbuster. We have warm earth notes, chocolate, toasty oak, dry herbs, cloves, black fruits, cold tea and black olives. Still very youthful but this is a full force wine. Your choice whether to open it now for the muscle and massive fruit flavours, or hold off and enjoy a little more finesse. For anyone keen to see the style of wine provided by the 2020 vintage in this region, this is ideal.
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.
