Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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Time after time, Marg River Cab shows just how thrilling it can be and why the region is considered as one of the very best for Cabernet, anywhere on the planet. 6% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Fifteen months in French oak, 26% of which was new. This is a deep maroon with notes of chocolate, aniseed, raspberries, axle grease (in the most positive sense), black jellybeans, tobacco leaves and blackcurrants. The palate moves more to cloves and soy. Seamless in structure and with serious length, the wine is young but fresh and already heading to early complexity with bright acidity and ideal balance. A cracking Cabernet that will surely be giving great pleasure for at least the next twelve to twenty 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.
