Tenafeate Creek Vincenzo 2024
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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A Shiraz Cabernet blend, the fruit was sourced from a single vineyard and co-fermented. Maturation was for a year and a half in new French oak barrels. The colour is an opaque maroon. An attractive and generous nose leads to a plush and approachable palate. On the nose, we have notes of cassis, blackberries, plums, bay leaves, mulberries, vanillin oak, beef stock, chocolate and mocha. The structure is seamless and there is very good length with a fine line of acidity. Excellent oak integration throughout, the wine is well focused and finishes with satiny tannins. It can be enjoyed any time over the next twenty 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.
