Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 91
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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Margaret River Cabernet is one of this country’s great wine styles and, over recent years, we have seen a number of producers put out a challenge to the traditionally lauded producers, these guys among them. This has a deep maroon/garnet hue. Very young at this stage, indeed, it is seemingly still a touch raw with some splintery oak evident. Black fruits, dry herbs, truffles, coffee grinds and black cherries to start, the coffee grinds step up towards the finish of the palate even more. With fine tannins, this is a wine of medium length, though every reason to believe that it will improve in time. Put it away for a few years and then enjoy it for the next eight to twelve.
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.
