Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 95
- $95
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Margaret River Cabernet has established itself as one of the great wine styles of this country – world domination is surely next. Quality of this – and it should be said, more than a few other Marg River Cabs – is world class and represents fabulous buying. This wine spent twelve months maturing in French oak, 35% of it new. The colour here is a vibrant dark maroon. Dark chocolate, blackberries, dried herbs, graphite, black fruits, cloves and impressive, deftly handled oak integration is all here. This is still very young and needs time to reach its peak, but it will provide excellent drinking in the meantime. There is good acidity, grip and length to tie everything together. Try leaving it for two to three years before opening and then drink for the next decade.
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.
