Stonehaven LVR Coonawarra Cab Sauv 2021
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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Amazing to think we are still seeing wines from the stellar 2021 vintage and even more surprising to see them offering such great value. Anyone who hasn’t stocked their cellar with this brilliant vintage as yet needs to get a wriggle on. This is a fine Coonawarra Cabernet with great promise. Blood red with a pale garnet rim, we have notes of bay leaves, chocolate, dried herbs, warm soil and aniseed. Still quite youthful, even though it does have a few years under its belt, there is good intensity which is maintained for the full journey. The wine is focused and slightly muscular in style. It finishes with firm tannins and should drink impressively for the next ten to twelve years.
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.
