Terre à Terre Crayeres Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2021
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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The seventh release of one of Australia’s finest examples of Cab Franc. The team have added 9% Shiraz to ‘lift the middle palate’ in 2021, which was a mild but exceptional year. The Wrattonbully vineyard was planted in 2008 at a density similar to that of those in Saint Emilion. The wine spent 14 months in old French oak, both barriques and foudres. 2,150 cases made. Magenta/purple. There is a leafy, aromatic nose, fresh and elegant, with notes of spices, red fruits, bay leaves and raspberries. Finely balanced, there is a richness with depth and intensity and impressive length plus firm tannins. Drink over the next five 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.
