Zonte’s Footsteps Violet Beauregard Malbec Langhorne Creek 2023
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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It is a cracking Malbec. Crimson red, this is plush and hedonistic, with all of the flavour Langhorne Creek can muster. Notes of plums, blueberries, mulberries, chocolate and coffee beans. Utterly delicious, this is supple with a cushiony texture leading through to velvety tannins. Generous throughout, leading to a lingering finish. Love it. It will sail through the next ten years, but if you want to turn Friday night in front of the footy into something special, crack a bottle.
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.
