Leconfield DGR Cabernet Shiraz 2022
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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From a favourite Coonawarra winery, this is a very fine example of the great Aussie blend – Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz – and hails from an excellent vintage for the region. DGR stands for Damn Good Red, which most of us would take to mean the wine itself, but you can go further and think of that famed terra rossa soil. An inky dark but vibrant purple, this is a wonderful Coonawarra red, with the Cabernet very much to the fore at the moment. The aromas weave through tobacco leaves, blackberries, herbs, cigar boxes, graphite and spices. Seamless in structure, this has serious length, finishing with abundant and quite firm, youthful tannins. Chocolate/cherry notes emerge on the palate and the oak is integrating well. This is built for the long haul, twenty years if you have the patience and the cellar, but it will provide plenty of pleasure along the way.
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.
