Brand’s Laira The Marching Captain Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
- 90
- $18
- Drink by: 2021-2025
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Ripe blackberries and blueberries leap from the glass. Coonawarra is known for its distinctive choc mint Cabernet and this doesn’t disappoint – this time it’s dark chocolate coated spicy spearmint (does anyone remember White Knights?). There’s white pepper and that lovely herbaceous earthiness the air has after a day spent gardening. On the palate it’s medium bodied with fine, juicy tannins. Just a hint of oak allows the juicy black fruits and choc mint to again strut their stuff. Drink with herb foccacia, crunchy and warm from the oven, dunked into a silky olive dip.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
