Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2023
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Solo Cabernet Franc can be an exciting style and this example is definitely worth exploring. This wine, from the Crayères vineyard in Wrattonbully, sees the addition of 8% Shiraz. Maturation was in a mix of French oak barrels, 20% of them new, and one old oak foudre, all for a period of 14 months. 1,250 six-packs made. An elegant style, this is fresh and flavoursome with notes of red fruits, redcurrants, tobacco leaves, dried herbs and red cherries, together with hints of root vegetables. Seductive in style with silky tannins, this is a little savoury and herbal, and a wine of balance, medium weight and good length. It should provide pleasure for at least the next 10 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.
