Cape Landing Blackwood Syrah 2024
- 96
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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The team combined the same amount of whole bunch and destemmed fruit for fermentation, followed by maturation for ten months in French oak puncheons on lees. Around 1/3rd of the puncheons were new. Bâttonage (lees stirring) occurred every two weeks. If ever a wine shows that Shiraz/Syrah is an underrated gem in the Margaret River region, this would have to be it. Vibrant dark purple/maroon, on the nose we have notes of plums and mulberries, spices, red fruits, florals and cassis with a touch of vanilla from exemplary oak integration. There is also a fine line of attractive chocolatey flavours. Superbly balanced with a very long and lingering finish through to silky tannins, surely this sits with the best Shiraz Margaret River available today. Enjoy it over the next ten to fifteen 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.
