Leconfield Coonawarra Reserve Cabernets 2022
- 93
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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From an excellent Coonawarra vintage, this is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Maturation is in French oak. An inky, opaque maroon, this is fresh, bright and youthful. We have notes of chocolate, cold tea, bay leaves, mocha and coffee beans. A wine of medium length, good focus and fine tannins, there is a flick of oak still evident but integration is proceeding well. An exciting future is promised and it will surely drink well for the next ten to twelve years. It is terrific buying.
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.
