Geoff Merrill G&W Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This wine is a blend of fruit from Coonawarra and McLaren Vale. The “G” is for the Graymoor Vineyard in the Coonawarra and “W” for Wickham Park in McLaren Vale. The division of fruit is 55% in favour of Coonawarra, the remainder from McLaren Vale. The wine spent twenty months in a mix of American and French oak hogsheads, 20% of which was new. Amazing value when one considers that this wine has almost a decade under its belt already. Dark red/maroon in colour, the nose has earthy notes with tobacco leaves, florals, chocolate, smoked meats and root vegetables, and there is even a little oak still evident. Juicy in style with good focus and still some appealing energy, there is a lingering finish on a wine of medium to good length. It should still drink beautifully for the next six to ten 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.
