Jo handed me the bottle to taste with the words “this vintage is a stonker”.
The bottle in question was the recently released Katnook Founder’s Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 but I am not sure she’s right about the stonking bit. To me, stonking implies something overwhelming, a blockbuster, a wine clearly designed to impress from the very first sip; a wine …
By Jo Jerico, Wingara
Wingara Pod on Bibendum Stand
It’s coming towards the end of a long day here at the fair. I caught up with Wayne Stehbens from Katnook Estate to learn more about Coonawarra. We all know about Coonawarra Cabernet (check back tomorrow for an update on the Landmark Coonawarra Cabernet tutorial which Wayne is presenting at) …
By Jo Jericho
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn
The Harrow at Little Bedwyn has been on my hit list of restaurants for ages. Roger Jones, the Michelin starred chef/proprietor is a long-time supporter of Australian wines and all round nice guy. We’ve teamed up to present a special …
A week or two back we had the pleasure of Wayne Stehbens’ company for a day as he shoe-horned a spectacular tasting into the middle of a family holiday to Europe. The tasting coincided with the launch of the 2005 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. Here are some brief notes from the wines tasted that day:
We started with a horizontal tasting wines from the 1995 …
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …
