Cape Landing Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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This rather exciting Margaret River Cabernet spends almost a year maturing in French oak. Deep maroon in colour, we have lifted aromas of tobacco leaves, plums, soy, blackberries, spices, aniseed, dried herbs and cassis. There is quality oak integration here, along with a supple texture and good focus in this medium length wine. It finishes with deceptively silky tannins as there is some serious grip evident. This is a wine which will surely improve further over the next ten to fifteen years. A Cabernet which can certainly sit comfortably alongside the region’s better efforts.
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.
