Hollick Ravenswood Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
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- $95
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Ravenswood Lane will take you from the estate’s Neilson’s Block Vineyard to their Wilgha Vineyard, the two vineyards contributing to their flagship Cabernet and one of the region’s more exciting Cabs. Eighteen months’ maturation in French oak with a deep maroon colour, this is a youthful and intense Cabernet. Dark berries, smoked meats, blackberries, chocolate, coffee grinds, soy and aniseed. Fine line of acidity and evidence of early complexity. There is a lingering finish, with everything well in balance. A classic Coonawarra Cabernet which is drinking beautifully now and will continue to improve over at least the next decade.
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.
