Welland Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Cabernet from a combination of the Barossa and the Eden Valleys, released while still in the first blush of youth. Destemmed and crushed into a fermenter for a week with twice daily pumpovers, then to French oak for a year. Stunning stuff for such a young wine. Vibrant purple with notes of bay leaves, blackberries, dry herbs, chocolate, spices and more chocolate. Sweet rich Barossa fruit with a flick of oak, the palate moves more to plums, cassis and aniseed. Quite delicious and exuberant. Soft texture, silky fine tannins and excellent length here. Shows just how brilliant good Barossa Cabernet can be in the right vintage. This will provide pleasure for a decade and is stunning value.
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.
