Vineyard Road Alessandra Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
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- $95
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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A blend of fruit from the Corryton Park estate at Eden Valley and the Barossa Valley floor. The colour is an attractive mature red and the wine is still full of life, even with a decade under its belt. It is, perhaps, this freshness which most surprises and delights. Notes of plums, chocolate, coffee beans, leather and licorice. The palate moves to cassis, aniseed and blackberries supported by silky tannins. There is richness of flavour here, but the balance is retained throughout. This is drinking superbly at the moment and surely has at least another decade ahead of it. So much to like here.
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.
