Sorby Adams Galle Barossa Valley Cabernet 2020
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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This very fine Barossa Cabernet spent two years in French oak, 30% of which was new. Deep red/maroon in colour, this is still very young today, but the future is promising. Notes of chocolate, earthy tones, soy, beef stock, some oak still evident at this stage but melding well, cigar box characters and aniseed. This is firm and rather solid, very much reflecting the nature of the slightly burly 2020 vintage. Good length and fine tannins here. Expect it to continue to improve and drink well over the next ten to fifteen years. 2020 seems to be a vintage which suits Cabernet from the Barossa.
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.
