Risky Business Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Margaret River Cabernet for this price is either going to be one of the great bargains of the year or send up warning signs, which should send consumers running for the hills. Fortunately, it is the former. A deep maroon hue, the nose is redolent of blackcurrants, coffee grinds, aniseed, sage, tobacco leaves, a touch of chocolate and evidence of a little graphite. There is good focus here, impressive length and very fine tannins. The chocolate and graphite is accentuated on the palate. A fine example and one which proves that even good Margaret River Cabernet can have relative peanuts. Cracking value. Enjoy over 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.
