Arlewood Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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Like so many of the ‘19s this has taken a little time to come around, but the wait has been worth it. The cooler vintage had some challenges but for those prepared to wait the results are very good. This was left on skins for 21 days before spending 24 months in a mix of oaks that included 35% new French. It’s a medium bodied Cabernet with a leafy graphite and slightly minerally oyster shell character neatly integrated into a very long finish.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
