Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
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- $95
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Margaret River Cabernet continues to astound winelovers around the globe, deservedly so. 2024 is a vintage coming into its own. This is a single vineyard wine. Maturation is for approximately a year and a half in French oak barriques, around 1/3rd of them new. The clone used here is that regional favourite, the Houghton clone.Dark plum with a blood red rim, this is a most refined style of Cabernet exhibiting a touch of elegance throughout. The nose exhibits aromas of chocolate, graphite, coffee beans, cigar boxes, blackberries and cassis. Seamless in structure with very good length, it finishes with fine, silky tannins. Good focus and serious persistence, this is a quality Margaret River Cabernet and will provide fifteen years of pleasure, more if well cellared.
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.
