Wills Domain Eightfold Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Anyone looking for a more formally structured wine will likely opt for this fine Cabernet over the more richly flavoured Shiraz. Take your pick – there are no wrong answers here. The wine is deep magenta in colour. The aromas weave through chocolate, leather, cloves, warm earth, blackberries and animal skins. For me, it is the palate that is the real highlight here. With good poise and focus, this is lingering and balanced showing silky tannins plus more chocolate notes which emerge on the palate. Drink now for the next ten 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.
