Lindeman’s Limestone Ridge 2018
- 92
- $70
- Drink by: 2020 - 2030
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A Shiraz Cabernet blend, 73% Shiraz and 27% Cabernet, from the eponymous 24 hectare vineyard. This is deep purple with aromas of licorice, blackberries, aniseed, chocolate, cigar box/tobacco leaf and more. A sweet core of fruit on the palate too and well structured. There are abundant but very soft tannins here plus good acidity and fine length. This is a wine with an exciting future so expect it to age and improve for a good decade. It is always fun to look at the trio to see which stands up and this is very good but perhaps not the pick of the three. But that is only because of the superlative quality found elsewhere. The whole trio show the quality of the 2018 vintage.
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.
