Kilikanoon Meyman’s Cabernet 2020
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2022-2042
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This exciting Clare Valley winery continues to pump out cracking wines. The Meymans Block, 4 ½ hectares under vine, was planted back in 2000 as a dry grown Shiraz vineyard. The fruit here is also a regular contributor to their Covenant Shiraz. As we have seen, we also have quality Riesling fruit from it and now, Cabernet. This is a dark but vibrant purple. A lovely plush and lifted nose. Chocolate notes, coffee beans, vanilla, mocha, this is a richly flavoured and well balanced Clare Cabernet. Seamless, with ultra-fine tannins. Very good length here which is carried by a pleasing flick of acidity. Real length. A wine of poise and generosity. This has decades ahead of it. Delicious warmer climate Cabernet and has all the flavours that go with that.
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.
