Di Fabio Winemakers Selection Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc Merlot 2017
- 93
- $65
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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A well crafted Bordeaux Blend with some serious age on it will always be worth consideration. The colour is deep red with a garnet rim. The wine has good maturity, as one might expect, but still lots of life ahead of it. The nose gives us aromas weaving through tobacco leaves, raspberries, red cherries, beetroot, roast meats, dried herbs, leather and black fruits. There is some complexity evident and the wine has a long and lingering finish, with supple tannins and good firm persistence. It can still be enjoyed over the next four to six years and there is no need to be in any hurry.
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.
