Singlefile Wines The Philip Adrian Frankland River Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
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- $110
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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From the Riversdale Vineyard in Frankland River, which was planted back in 1997, this is the team’s flagship. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% of which was matured in new Bordeaux barriques for fifteen months with the remainder in one-year-old (30%) and two-year-old (30%) barriques. A superb example of what can be achieved in this region from Cabernet. The colour is an inky dark maroon, while the nose gives us an array of aromas – chocolate, tobacco leaves, graphite, bay leaves, vanilla, spices, blackberries and mocha. There is evidence of oak but the integration is proceeding well. This is powerful, concentrated and intense with a strong focus. The wine is a muscular style, and yet finely balanced with satiny tannins and excellent length with the emergence of purple fruits, mulberries and coffee beans to finish. This is a ten to twelve year proposition.
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.
