Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
- 97
- $250
- Drink by: 2021-2050
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The Roennfeldt Road wines are what has made this such a legendary estate. When American critic, Robert Parker, started tossing 100 point scores around like confetti at a wedding for these wines, the world took notice. The vines are over 120 years of age and the wine spends extended time in French oak, before release, five years after the vintage (Grange is out in the market in four, if you want a comparison). This is another superb release in the line.
Inky black with aromas of chocolate, tar, black olives, blackberries, dry herbs, black cherries and more. There is real power here. Intense and complex, seamless and powerful with very impressive length, which holds the intensity of flavour throughout. Seriously good. You want a wine for your grandkids, this will do it. Years, decades, ahead of it.
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.
