Di Fabio Winemaker’s Selection Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc Merlot 2018
- 92
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The traditional Bordeaux blend from McLaren Vale, from an excellent vintage, and the time in cellar has been to its advantage. Dark red with a garnet rim, this is attractively perfumed. Cherries, tobacco leaves, mulberries, spices, aniseed and dried herbs while the palate moves more to black fruits. The texture is quite sleek and there is good generosity here. This is well balanced with better than medium length and firm tannins. Impressive. Enjoy over the next decade.
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.
