Reschke Empyrean Coonawarra Cabernet 2018
- 93
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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From a single vineyard in Coonawarra, this fine Cabernet has the benefit of both being from a wonderful vintage and already having quite a few years maturing in the cellar. A deep red/maroon hue, there is some warm, toasty oak still evident, which adds to the overall impressive impression, rather than detracting in any way. There are notes of coffee beans, plums, chocolate, black fruits, soy and aniseed. This is a wine of poise and focus with some serious grip and a lingering finish. Still has a decade plus ahead of it.
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.
