Deep Woods Redlands Cabernet 2020
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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If Margaret River Chardy is a world famous, and much loved style, then Margaret River Cabernet is even more so. Again, this does not pretend to knock the very top examples off their perch (and nor is it priced to do so), but rather this is delicious drinking, full of flavour and great value. Deep intense reds and violets. Bold Cabernet notes here, with black fruits, cigar box characters, chocolate, cassis and more – a terrific nose. The palate is supple with the tannins on the finish very fine. Juicy, youthful flavours, but there is some serious intensity here right through to a long and impressive finish. Delicious now, but no issue in cellaring it over the next four to five years, even longer. I like this a lot.
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.
