Reschke Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 93
- $85
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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A very fine and quite powerful style of Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra, this is definitely a wine which is designed for the long haul. Opaque maroon with a dark russet rim, the nose reveals notes of strong tobacco leaves and cigar boxes, alongside plums, dried herbs, cloves, soy, animal fur and warm earth. A wine of medium length with fine, slightly grippy tannins, there is good focus here. It will handle the next ten to twelve years with ease, longer if needed. One of the more powerful Cabernets of late.
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.
