Stockman’s Ridge Orange Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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Cabernet Sauvignon from the volcanic soils of the Orange region, this is good value and thoroughly enjoyable drinking. A crimson red hue, this is an earthy style, slightly savoury, with red fruits, cherries and raspberries, garden herbs, mulberries and cigar box notes. A wine of medium length, but with attractive flavours and a fine balance, here are also sleek tannins and a fine line of acidity. Enjoy this wine over the next four to five 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.
