Springs Road Kangaroo Island Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2037
Share
The team purchased vineyards on Kangaroo Island in 2016. They had been planted with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay between 1994 and 2000. As with the Shiraz, the wine spends a year maturing in French oak, around 30% new. An opaque maroon, this is dense and powerful with notes of cassis, tobacco leaves, mulberries, blackcurrants, aniseed, soy and cloves. A wine of medium weight, good balance, decent length and fine tannins, there is a firm finish with hints of herbs and a touch of eucalyptus. Good persistence with the power still in evidence, this is a wine which still has considerable potential. Enjoy over the next twelve years. Buy it to support the Island’s recovery or buy it because it is terrific drinking.
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.
