Pure Clare Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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This collection from the Clare represents ridiculous value. A cracking Cabernet Sauvignon from forty-year-old vines from the Armagh Valley in the Clare for fifteen bucks? Sounds crazy, but here it is. Made by Ben Jeanneret and team at the family winery, which has been in business since 1992. An attractive crimson colour with aromas of black fruits, black jellybeans, cloves, aniseed and dry herbs which have line, length and focus. The wine has admirable structure, backed by nicely balanced acidity and finishing with fine tannins. Very enjoyable now but should easily age well for four to eight years. A bolder, firmer style of red.
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.
