Wolf Blass Platinum Label Medlands Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 96
- $200
- Drink by: 2024 - 2045
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Of the two Medlands Vineyard Platinum wines, this is my pick from 2018, certainly the reverse of my usual preference, although both are superb wines.
Deep red/purple with a crimson edge. Lovely dark berries here and vanillin notes with serious concentration. Black cherry notes come through in spades. There is a lovely sweet core of fruit too – delicious! This is all backed by some cigar box notes, dry herbs and old leather. The wine is seamless, well focused, finely crafted and shows excellent length and immaculate balance with slightly chewy tannins, as you’d expect from cabernet. This has 15 to 20 years ahead of it and is a superb wine. It is gorgeous now but will drink so well for many 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.
