Cape Landing Reserve Syrah 2019
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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The style here moves more to delicatessen meats and animal hides, rather than bright and obvious fruit notes. Those who enjoy quality Rhone wines will not be unhappy. Maturation in French oak, barriques and puncheons, with around one-third new for this excellent Margaret River Shiraz/Syrah. A crimson, mauve colour, we also have aromas of red currants, plums, leather, miso, aniseed and milk chocolate. So, perhaps the wine is more the link between typical Aussie styles and those from the Rhone. However one decides to designate it, it is a cracking wine. There is balance and a lingering and quite intense finish. Good energy here, the wine will offer pleasure for at least a decade.
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.
