Twinwoods Optivus Margaret River Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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The fruit here is sourced from the estate vineyards in the Wilyabrup sub-region. After fermentation, the wine spends a year and a half in French oak barriques, most of which are new. Under cork. An opaque maroon hue here, this is a big, powerful and intense wine. Cloves, dark chocolate, licorice, coffee beans, leather, spices and soy with the intensity maintained throughout. The wine has fine acidity, sleek tannins and offers serious concentration plus very long on the finish. A towering Marg River Cabernet, which is certain to continue to provide pleasure for another fifteen to twenty 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.
