Frankland Estate Olmo’s Reward 2021
- 96
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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The Estate’s prestige red and a perennial favourite from the region. The grapes are all sourced from their Isolation Ridge vineyard with the Cabernet Franc (90%) coming from three discrete parcels. It is blended with their best Malbec (2%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (8%). This is a serious contender for the very best Cab Franc (or Cab Franc dominant blend) in the country. Fifteen months in a mix of large oak and just 300 dozen made. Dark blood red, we have notes of bay leaves, spices, cedar, earth, black fruits and tobacco leaves. There is an intrinsic elegance to this wine, as well as serious intensity, balance and length. Early complexity is already building with a fine lingering finish and silky tannins. The wine has such good balance and will drink beautifully for the next ten to fifteen years. Always a top notch wine, this is as good a version of the Olmo’s Reward as I can recall. In fact, an absolute cracker!
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.
