Seville Estate Old Vine Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2020 - 2040
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Yarra Cabernet seems to have almost fallen off the vinous map, even though there was a time when it ranked up there with regions like Coonawarra and Margaret River. With wines like this, it is very difficult to understand how that could have happened.
As with all the Reserve reds, it is from vines planted in 1972. Only older French oak used, with wild yeasts. A glorious nose with blackberry notes, cassis, tobacco leaf. A hint of blackcurrant jam. This is supple and seamless. Abundant but ultra-fine tannins. Knife-edge balance. Great length. A wine with twenty years ahead of it. Stunning stuff and a brilliant Yarra Cabernet.
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.
