Majella Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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More absolutely stonking value to be had here. Coonawarra Cabernet from a great year at this price? Load up. Magenta/purple hue, the nose exhibits an array of aromas with cigar box notes, chocolate, coffee beans, bay leaves and mulberries. There is deft use of oak, well integrated. The structure is seamless, the texture supple and the finish excellent. Good balance and fine tannins, this is a wine with a great future. Drink for 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.
