Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2022
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2031
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Their eighth release of a Cabernet Franc dominant release. The wine does have a dollop – 9% – of Shiraz included. The wine spent fourteen months in a mix of French oak barrels and old oak foudre. Just 2,150 six-packs. A shining red hue here, the nose exhibits notes of red cherries, warm earth, raspberries, aniseed, herbals and cloves. A wine with solid grip, serious length and juicy acidity, this is supple and seamless. A really good local example of Cab Franc, something that is not all that easy to find. Enjoy over the next four to seven years. Great value.
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.
