Cape Landing Blackwood Heritage Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 92
- $70
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This is one of the flagships of the range, Cabernet from their oldest single vineyard which has matured for 16 months in French oak barriques, around one third of which is new. The colour here is deep cherry red. The nose exhibits notes of plums, mulberries, dried herbs, cherries and dark fruits. There is also the hint of an undergrowth note here, with some herbals. It is still coming together but certainly progressing very well and there is already good generosity evident. Showing good grip with medium length, the wine really will benefit from a couple more years in the cellar to fully come together (at which time the score should bump up a bit as well) and will then drink well for the next five to eight 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.
