Cape Landing Cabernet Malbec 2024
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Sadly, I don’t see enough of this producer from Margaret River, something I need to rectify, but every time I do, I come away impressed. And so it is with this wine. From a single vineyard, the colour is a vibrant, deep, dark purple. This is exuberant but balanced throughout, with notes of plums, cassis, tobacco leaves, aniseed, blackberries and graphite. A supple texture, the wine has good length through to satiny tannins on a lingering finish. There is good energy here throughout. A fine Cabernet blend for enjoying over the next ten to twelve 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.
