Claymore London Calling Cabernet Malbec 2022
- 92
- $24
- Drink by: 2024-2030
Share
They are clearly music fans at Claymore, fans with excellent taste in both tunes and wines. This is a Clare Valley blend of Cabernet and Malbec. A deep magenta hue, there are notes of spicy oak and dark fruits. Plums, dried herbs, chocolate, coffee grinds, bay leaves, licorice and black cherries. This is a medium length wine with fine tannins providing decent grip. Drink this now and for the next six 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.
