Gartner Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Coonawarra 2021
- 94
- $85
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A fine Coonawarra Cabernet from a great vintage, this is definitely worth seeking out, for the enjoyment it offers now and more especially, for the cellar. Under Diam. Deep blood red in colour, there are rich chocolate and coffee bean notes on the nose, along with cassis, mocha and tobacco leaves. Plush and generous, this is well structured with serious length and good intensity. Enjoy this over the next ten to fifteen years.
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.
