Leconfield Coonawarra The Sydney Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 97
- $115
- Drink by: 2023-2043
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It is blindingly obvious that this is something special from the very first sniff. A great vintage, a top producer, a brilliant region and their most revered grape – what else do you need? It is a tribute to founder, Sydney Hamilton, who was behind Leconfield in its early days and would have made those wonderful wines from the 1970s. Opaque maroon. This is seriously good. Gorgeous nose with blackberries, chocolate, cloves, dry herbs, cassis, vanilla and mint with superb oak integration. The wine is exquisitely balanced, with an ideal structure, focus and direction, and maintains intensity for the full, very long journey. A really impressive wine that will sail through twenty years in good cellars.
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.
