Bleasdale The Iron Duke Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 95
- $79
- Drink by: 2021-2036
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The Iron Duke? That’s a story for pondering over a glass, involving Bleasdale founder, Frank Potts, and Imperial Russian sabre rattling in the 1870s. Frank Potts was some guy. This wine pays homage to him. It’s one of Bleasdale’s flagship reds, full of serious intent and weight and richness. Opens with a swathe of ripe, bright cassis and black cherry intensity, tilled earth, olive, violets. A finely-crafted French oak framework plays a role, bringing a vanillin, woodsy spice focus. The palate moves into foresty, leafy cabernet characters and rich flavours played out against a background of dense, firm tannins. Decanting is advised if you wish to partake now.
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.
