Precious Little Langhorne Creek Touriga Nacional 2018
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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The journey from Portugal to Langhorne Creek in South Australia is a very long one but this powerful grape, so crucial to the Douro’s glorious fortifieds, has travelled well. The fact that both regions are largely dry and hot no doubt helps. Touriga is a powerful grape, big and bold. Wines from it will never be shrinking violets and finesse and elegance are words not likely to appear in tasting notes with any regularity.
The wine is a deep, dark purple. Rich, muscular and indeed powerful. Flavours of chocolate, blueberry, cassis, blackcurrants, cloves and black olives emerge on the nose. The black fruits and chocolate become more dominate on the palate. The flavours tend to be upfront and the wine has medium length at this stage. Should age and improve for a considerable time.
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.
