Terre à Terre Reserve 2019
- 96
- $95
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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This is their prestige wine, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Cabernet Franc, the best parcels. The blend is 62% Cab Sauv, 19% Shiraz and 19% Cab Franc and the wine spent seven months in new French oak and then a further year in old French foudres with a further 18 months in bottle before release. 2019 was a warm vintage, but a classic one for Wrattonbully. 700 cases made. The colour is a deep maroon and the wine exhibits complexity and depth with notes of florals, tobacco leaves, chocolate, blackberries, aniseed and bergamot. There are the familiar Cabernet characters with cigar box notes. Good focus, excellent length and plenty of grip with impressive balance. A cracker and should sail through 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.
