Tenafeate Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Sourced from the Northern One Tree Hill vineyard, the wine spent a year and a half maturing in new and older French oak hogsheads. Deep magenta with a purple/red rim, the nose exhibits notes of plums, black jellybeans, chocolate, blackberries, spices, coffee grinds, tobacco leaves, dried herbs and licorice. This is attractive with balance and focus, a wine of medium to good length, finishing with fine tannins and a flick of juicy acidity. There is a sleek texture throughout. Much to like here. Enjoy it over the next six to eight 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.
