Cape Landing Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Ten months in French oak for this Reserve Cabernet from Margaret River, the fruit hails from a single vineyard. This is a superb example of the style. Deep maroon in colour, the aromas swirl through blackberries, soy, aniseed, graphite, coffee grinds, cassis and a hint of warm earth. Just a flick of the herbals with a touch of capsicum too. There is good focus here, good length and sleek tannins making a wine which can be enjoyed any time over the next ten 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.
