Brand & Sons Sanctuary Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 96
- $150
- Drink by: 2022-2047
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This exquisitely presented Cabernet dominant blend with a smaller amount of Cabernet Franc captures so much of the regional DNA of Coonawarra. It comes off vines that are nearly 40 years old and was made by careful culling, first through the optical grape sorter and then through barrel selection and blending. Dark blackcurrant fruit with a layer of dark chocolate and minerally oyster shell. Tannins are slightly chalky and firm, although the fruit wraps closely so it all sits harmoniously. It’s had nearly 24 months in a mix of largely French oak so will handle plenty of time in the cellar.
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.
