Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 92
- $60
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Another very fine Margaret River Cabernet, which for me, pips the earlier vintage. Cherry-red in colour with a mix of spices and dried herbs, red fruits, tobacco leaves, raspberries and mild chocolate. At this stage, this wine is showing more of the red fruits influence than is apparent with the 2020. The palate sees the emergence of truffle notes as well as those coffee grinds with good acidity and firm but fine tannins. Drink over the next six to ten 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.
