Zema Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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An absolutely cracking Coonawarra Cabernet from the wonderful 2021 vintage, this has to be one of the bargains of the year. From three vineyards across the region. A black centre here with a dark maroon rim, this is beautifully crafted. The wine has balance, focus and direction. The nose reveals aromas of dark chocolate, cassis, a touch of mint, blackberries, coffee beans, aniseed, cigar boxes and truffles. Seamless and with great length, the wine has balance and intensity, finishing with fine grained tannins. A 15-year proposition, this really is brilliant value.
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.
