Terre à Terre Les Crayères Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 2024
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- $59
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The seventh release for this wine from an excellent vintage for Wrattonbully, fermentation was in larger Potter fermenters and smaller open top fermenters. Maturation was in French oak barrels, with 12% new oak, and old foudres for fifteen months. The blend is 43% Shiraz, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Cabernet Franc. 5,000 six-packs produced. A deep magenta hue, this has a gorgeous nose. The aromas weave through notes of blackberries, cigar boxes, mulberries, vanillin touches, bay leaves, plums, mocha and chocolate. A medium weight, seamless, elegant, seductive style with a fine line of acidity, the wine is beautifully balanced. Like this enormously. For enjoying over the next ten to fifteen 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.
