Ross Hill Pinnacle Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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An elegant example of Cabernet Sauvignon which spent a year and a half maturing in French oak, 35% of which was new. The fruit was sourced from the Estate’s Griffon Road Vineyard. An opaque maroon core with a dark magenta rim, the nose exhibits notes of plums, blackberries, tobacco leaves, cassis and coffee beans. There is juicy acidity here, along with slightly mouth puckering tannins at this early stage. The wine has both length and balance. A really fine, elegant style of Cabernet which will provide pleasure for ten to fifteen years. Most impressive.
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.
