Cerbaiona Santinovo 2020
- $195
- Drink by: 2024-2046
Share
The new management expanded the wines on offer from this stellar estate, including a straight Merlot (San Vito) and this wine, a blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, but with only 1,320 bottles produced for this vintage, it is in short supply. The free run juice spent 14 months in new oak. Love this wine. plush, ripe, and supple, it remains wonderfully elegant for the full journey. Immaculate balance and perfect structure, it is full of fruit. Notes of blackberries, dried herbs, chocolate, aniseed and tobacco leaves. A long, lingering finish, this has surely ten to twenty years ahead of it, although good luck keeping your hands off it. Utterly compelling. Again, no score given at the request of the estate.
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.
