Reconquista Tempranillo 6 months 2020
- 90
- $40
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Nicely packaged, even if the label is rather busy. From the Castille region (technically, the IGP is Vino de la Tierra de Castilla). As the name suggests, the wine spends six months in 225-litre French oak barrels with fruit from vines that are over half a century in age, and is organic. Dark maroon. This is an easy drinking style, quite ripe, with a pleasing spiciness. The flavours are dominated by red fruit notes, well supported by a flick of oak. There is a sweet core to the fruit here with medium length and some grip evident. Drink now and for the next couple of 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.
