Taylors Jaraman Clare Valley/Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $34
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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A wine that takes the best from both regions, Clare and Coonawarra, and which has already made a real impression on the show circuit, with an impressive seventeen gold medals. The blend is 51% Clare Valley and 49% Coonawarra. Maturation was for fourteen months in French oak barrels, with 10% of them new. A vibrant purple hue, the nose offers notes of cassis, choc/cherry, mulberries, plums, deftly handled oak and a whiff of mint. This is finely balanced with very good length, a firm finish but sleek, very fine tannins. An attractive style which will improve further over the next ten to twelve 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.
