Brand & Sons Last Sunday Drive Cabernet Franc 2019
- 91
- $26
- Drink by: 2021 - 2026
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Cabernet franc is one of the key varieties of Bordeaux’s Right Bank, with its contribution of heady aromatics a delightful addition to other varieties. But in some cases, it works on its own rather well. This is one of those occasions. It’s so effortlessly long and supple on the palate with a meaty, perfumed mix that is immediately engaging. Fine dusty tannins and a lick of understated oak. Lots of dark chocolate and ripe black fruits. Beautiful palate weight allows the flavours to build with graceful elegance and deliver to a long finish. Mighty good wine for this price.
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.
