Bekkers McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 95
- $120
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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The fruit for this excellent wine comes from Bekkers Clarendon Vineyard Estate, which was planted back in the early 90s. The colour is brilliant, deep, dark, but with some nice crimson hues on the finish. The nose is immediately captivating, exotic aromas of African violet, black currant and a little graphite. The palate is plush, smooth and textured, yet the fine thread of tannins has been retained, contributing to a wine of structure and purpose. There’s a little savouriness on the finish and a touch of black olive providing a nice complement to the deeper fruits. Oak is well managed, and overall, the wine is balanced and poised.
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.
