Sorby Adams Isolde Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
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- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Barossa Cabernet is a curious beast. While it will never replicate what one might seek from Bordeaux or even Margaret River or Coonawarra, that does not mean it can’t be a full-flavoured style that delivers immense pleasure. Vintage conditions can play a role and this vintage does seem to suit the style. The wine spent two years in French oak. A deep maroon hue, the nose exhibits notes of tobacco leaves, chocolate, woodsmoke, aniseed, blackberries and plums. A fine warm climate Cabernet with balance, good length and sleek tannins. Richly flavoured, this is ideal for those who simply want a cracking red. Enjoy this any time from now and over the next six to eight 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.
