Angus The Bull Black Angus Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

A striking wine of impressive concentration, Heathcote Cabernet Sauvignon can and does stand tall and deserves greater recognition than it often receives. This is very much an elegant wine, nicely evolved and capable of some serious cellaring down the track, combining a mix of heady floral aromatics, leaf and dried herbs with ripe black berries together with regional trademark bay leaf, eucalyptus – just a smidge and not over-stated. It is nicely crafted oak-wise, too, with a subtle but integral layer of lead pencil oak. Fine tannins line the wine, offering good balance and structure. Quite the complete wine now – a very good sign – and while the suggestion is that it makes for a fine accompaniment to steak, that is just the tip of the iceberg as far as potential food matches are concerned.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic