Fuddling Cup Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Bigger, richer and more powerful, in keeping with the style of vintage, this is again from the famed sub-region of Wilyabrup and has spent the requisite year in French oak. Deep maroon colour, the nose offers us notes of blackcurrants, chocolate, mulberries and truffles. This is ripe and generous in style and with time, we see the emergence of hints of graphite and licorice. Silky tannins and good concentration, there is balance and focus. The wine offers a really good intensity which never waivers. A six to eight year proposition.
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.
