Soul Growers Barossa Bourne Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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A warm region Cabernet, this is a dark maroon colour, with notes of bay leaves, blackberries, delicatessen meats, tobacco leaves, miso, espresso, mulberries and warm earth notes. A wine with a lot packed into it. A good line of bright acidity, it finishes with pleasingly silky tannins. This is a wine with a long life ahead of it. It will be better in two to four years and then provide excellent drinking any time over the next ten to fifteen.
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.
