Risky Business Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Something a little more conventional from the team, Margaret River Cabernet. Seriously good value drinking here. The colour is a dark and very deep garnet, with the nose an array of gorgeous Cabernet aromas – plums, tobacco leaves, blackberries, chocolate, aniseed and graphite. There is quite a fleshy note here with dried herbs and bay leaves also present. Good focus through to a lingering finish with some solid grip. Firm tannins on the finish complimented by a fine line of acidity, excellent balance and a promising future – surely six to ten years in the cellar without a hitch. And did I mention what tremendous value this wine is?
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.
