Majella Coonawarra The Malleea 2018
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Always good to see wines with time in the cellar under their belt, especially when they come from such a stellar vintage for the region. Pricing is more than reasonable as well. A Cabernet Shiraz blend. Still quite youthful, there are notes of chocolate, dried earth, licorice, warm earth, plums, cloves and blackberries. There is good concentration, freshness, intensity and impressive length, with juicy acidity and satiny tannins. Will drink beautifully for the next twelve to fifteen years at least. Like this a lot.
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.
