Wills Domain Paladin Hill Matrix 2022
- 96
- $110
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A regional star Cabernet, but there can be a dollop of Petit Verdot in some vintages. The wine spends a year and a half maturing in French oak. A superb wine, already evidencing some of the complexity which will surely grow in the coming years. This is fresh and focused, with black fruits, aniseed, tobacco leaf notes, chocolate, graphite and even a hint of blueberries and some raspberries. The balance and length is immaculate, and the wine is refined, elegant and persistent, with that lovely lingering finish and silky tannins. A deft hand keeps everything in check. This will provide pleasure for at least the next fifteen years. Cracking stuff.
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.
