Greenock Estate Graeme Regional Cabernet 2016

  • 90
  • $45
  • Drink by: 2023-2028

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Always exciting to find a newly released wine which has already enjoyed a lengthy spell in the cellar (remember, the current Grange is the 2018). Even better when it hails from a superb year. This wine is from the Wrattonbully region. Dark magenta in colour, there are some dusty oak notes, an attractive chocolate character, olives, warm earth, black cherries and we come full circle to more chocolate. This might be relatively simple in style, but it is plush and pleasing – a mid length style, a little upfront, with soft tannins. Drink over the next two to five years.

Ken Gargett
Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
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Ken Gargett
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Variety: Red Wine, Cabernet
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines