Leconfield Manor House Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Leconfield remains one of those always reliable if slightly under the radar operations, which have mastered the Coonawarra region’s great variety, Cabernet Sauvignon. Their wine should most definitely be on your radar. Dark opaque maroon, the wine has a nose which is full of fruit and flavour, quite intense, with notes of aniseed, cloves, blackberries, cassis, soy, coffee grinds and chocolate. It is focused, tight and poised, with a sleek texture through to fine powdery tannins. There is serious length here and the wine should drink impressively for the next fifteen 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.
