Trove Estate The Laurels Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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Margaret River Cabernet is one of the great wine styles offered in this country and this is a fine example. The team’s usual procedure is for the fruit to be destemmed and then crushed into static fermenters for cold soaking for six to eight days. Fermentation proceeds with twice daily pumpovers, before pressing to barrel for 18 months.
Dark purple. The nose offers appealing notes of black cherries, dried herbs and black olives. This is fragrant and finely constructed. Good focus here, the wine has line and length. Black fruits dominate the palate at this early stage which also displays very fine tannins and excellent length. This has six to eight years of improvement ahead of it and should plateau for many years after that. A fine Margaret River 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.
