Zema Cluny Cabernet Merlot 2021
- 92
- $24
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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The blend here is 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 7% Malbec and 7% Cabernet Franc. The wine spent eighteen months maturing in French oak. Very dark maroon in hue, the nose offers notes of tobacco leaves, dry herbs, blackcurrants, touches of root vegetable, chocolate and leather. A wine of medium length, good balance, freshness and fine, sleek tannins with a vague hint of oak in the background. It should provide pleasure over the next 8 to 12 years. Good 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.
