Richard Hamilton Hut Block McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 93
- $26
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Terrific value to be found in this delicious McLaren Vale Cabernet, from the Hut Block. The team like to use a mix of oak – French and American – for maturation. This is from a great vintage. The wine has an opaque magenta hue, while the nose offers notes of chocolate, blackberries, dried herbs, tobacco leaves, warm earth, truffles, nutmeg and aniseed. Good concentration and big, bold flavours, this has impressive length, satiny tannins and a supple texture. Full flavoured and well structured, this will provide serious pleasure for the next eight to ten 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.
