Step by Step The Boss Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 90
- $15
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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On one hand, this was my favourite wine in the range. On the other, I have a huge bone to pick with the makers. You do not call a wine, ‘The Boss’, and then say it sounds like someone other than Springsteen. Just not done. Our makers felt it more like someone called Amy Winehouse. Fortunately, the wine is good.
There is a hint of the herbaceousness one often finds with cabernet sauvignon with blacker fruits also encountered here – blackberry, cassis and some mulberry, dried herbs too. Soft tannins and good persistence with mocha and coffee bean near the finish. It finishes with impressive length and is quite obviously great value.
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.
