Happiness as Anarchy #173: Aged Cab Sav

It seems it’s a winey week. This evening, in the most unlikely of motels in regional South Australia, I had the pleasure of sharing a bottle of 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon with colleagues. The wine was not on the list, but on the shelf, and staff had to call the manager to find out how much it was – as it turned out, the same price as the other, much younger, wines on the list. I didn’t know the winery, but we thought we’d take a gamble, and it certainly paid off. A touch fortified on the nose, with lots of aged oak and remnants of fruit on the palate, and incredible length – the kind of wine that hangs around longer than your great aunt Beryl at a family funeral, but in a good way. Delicious, complex, and beautifully aged.

Simon Hackett Foggo Road Cabernet Sauvignon, Maclaren Vale 1998