Jack Estate Coonawarra/Wrattonbully Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Coonawarra provides almost three-quarters of the fruit for this blend, with the remaining quarter coming from Wrattonbully. Blood red/maroon in colour, the nose reveals notes of tobacco leaves, aniseed, animal skins, warm earth and dark fruits. There is medium length here through to fine tannins. A firm and powerful style of Cabernet, with a touch of austerity, this should drink very well for the next four to six 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.
