I don’t like to do long wine reviews, primarily because I can’t! Although I drink a fair bit of wine at home my vocabulary is pretty limited: nice; not nice; drinkable; dry; fruity; feck. I need to take a night class. In any event there are some excellent Irish wine blogs out there (sourgrapes.ie, Bubble Bros) so I’ll leave them do the real talking while I give a quick paragraph.
Like most other New World Cab Sauvs Hardy’s “Arrival” Cabernet Sauvignon (2006) is a rich and heavy wine. It’s heavy on the tannins and had a pretty sharp, alcohol, after taste. Volume is 13.5% which is typical of such a wine but there are far better sub €10 New World reds out there. As a true measure of it’s greatness we ended up by using it to make a red wine sauce for last night’s roast beef. Fin.
09/09/2008 at 7:16 pm Permalink
I am not a wine expert by any means, but I have never found reds from Australia easy to drink. Have you ever tried reds from spain or argentina? Here in the U.S. we have great reds from the state of Oregon (lots of Pinot Noir), but even most californian reds seem over rated. I am a big believer that you can get amazing wines for $12- $15. I check out the wine shops in Cork when I am there and I am amazed at all the great wines from the continent that we never get here in Boston. Lucky you!