Schoolhouse Block C1 Coonawarra Cabernet 2021
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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Coonawarra Cabernet has long been one of the great wine styles of the world. Inky maroon in colour, the nose swirls around savoury, earthy notes with aniseed, chocolate, cloves, axle grease (in the most positive way), soy and black olives. The immediate impression is of a wine which is really intense, powerful but equally well balanced and with enticing silky tannins. The palate sees the emergence of coffee grinds and blackberries. There is very good length here with persistence that will handle eight to ten years in the cellar without a problem.
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.
