Hollick Ravenswood Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $95
- Drink by: 2025-2040+
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This has long been one of the leading premium Coonawarra Cabernets and has been since its first release in 1988. Ravenswood Lane links Hollick’s vineyards of Neilson’s Block and Wilgha. Their best parcels of fruit are used, and they usually come from the oldest vines, 2021 a superb vintage in Coonawarra. The wine spends a year and a half maturing in French oak. An inky maroon hue, there is certainly oak evident at this early stage, but it is well in the process of integration. There are notes of chocolate, mint, tobacco leaves, blackberries, aniseed and a dusting of cocoa powder. Linear in structure, this has focus and a fine line of acidity, with abundant, sleek tannins. It offers excellent length and should drink wonderfully well for the next twelve to fifteen years, likely longer.
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.
