Cape Landing Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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Great to see a premium Marg River Cab which already has some maturity to it. Ten months maturation in French oak with the grapes from twenty-year-old vines, the Houghton clone. Dark garnet/maroon in colour. There are aromas swirling about – aniseed, chocolate, smoked meats, spices, soy, truffles, mocha and coffee beans. Excellent balance, which is just as we see throughout the entire range, and still youthful but with good focus. Thanks to fine acidity, silky tannins and very impressive length to finish, this has ten to fifteen years ahead of it.
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.
