Churchview Limited Release Cabernet Malbec Merlot Petit Verdot 2023
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A typical Bordeaux blend from a region that does the style wonderfully well, Margaret River. The blend is Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot and Petit Verdot. This is a wine which has a deep maroon hue and a nose of bay leaves, blackberries, cloves, cassis, plums, licorice, beef stock and mulberries. There is also a chalky support system holding everything in place. The style exhibits a degree of elegance and a lovely lingering finish with a fine line of acidity and enticingly sleek tannins. Like this a lot. It will drink well for the next eight to 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.
