Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2019
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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The classic Aussie blend, this time 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and 48% Shiraz, with a dollop of 2% Cabernet Franc. This is the second release of this wine, although there have been plenty of Cab-dominant wines from the team in previous vintages. It was crushed and destemmed before being transferred to potter fermenters and smaller open-top fermenters. After malolactic fermentation, the wine spent eight months in French barrels, 39% new, before being transferred to older 4,000-litre French foudres for another 11 months. 2,000 six-packs.
Deep red, this opens with some leafy Cabernet notes, with dry herbs, dark berries, tobacco leaf and soft leather. There is good focus here with lots of grip and tannins plus a very long finish. This is definitely one for the cellar. Give it time and it will reward.
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.
