Cape Jaffa La Lune Shiraz 2019
- 94
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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From the team’s estate vineyard at Mt Benson, specifically Block 6, this already has considerable time under its belt before release, always a welcome concept. A slow ferment on skins before a year and a half maturing in a mix of new and older French oak. Under Diam. The colour here is a dark blood red. The nose gives us notes of Kirsch, plums, blackcurrants, root vegetables, tobacco leaves, dried herbs, coffee grounds and smoked meats. There is real intensity here, running the full length, but the wine is finely balanced. It finishes with abundant, fine-grained tannins. Excellent persistence, this will provide enormous pleasure for the next ten or fifteen 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.
