Thompson Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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A very fine Margaret River Cabernet, revealing, yet again, just why the region is so highly regarded for this variety. Dark maroon in colour, the nose exhibits notes of black cherries, florals, blueberries, sage, graphite and dried herbs. Linear in style with focus and direction, this is immaculately balanced with superb focus and a very long finish. Notwithstanding the concentration and seemingly endless flavours, this does offer some elegance – a narrow tightrope to walk but it manages it with class. Stunning stuff and a wine which will easily handle ten to twelve years in the cellar.
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.
