Zema Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Homework for the week. Take a bottle of this and a bottle of their Estate Shiraz, both 2019 and both ridiculous value, and work out your preference. Line ball for me. Love them both. This Coonawarra Cab saw eighteen months in French hogsheads. A wine with concentration, focus and balance, the colour is an opaque maroon. The nose has black fruits, espresso, hints of chinotto, dried herbs and tobacco leaves. Supple texture with a fine line of acidity and lingering finish. Good intensity runs the length here to enjoy over the next ten years and more. Great buying and like the Estate Shiraz, five years under its belt already. Whichever you choose, you can’t lose.
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.
