Long Gully Estate Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 92
- $38
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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From the Yarra Valley, this is an impressive Cabernet. Dark magenta in colour, the nose offers classic cigar box notes, black fruits, mocha, coffee beans and tobacco leaves. It is both concentrated, and elegant, and walks that tightrope with ease. Balanced, good acidity, appealing freshness and serious length. This appeals now but has real potential to impress further over the next decade. The only criticism is that it is a fraction too young at the moment. A wine which reminds us that Cabernet was really the first red varietal to star in the Valley.
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.
