Bremerton Coulthard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Cabernet Sauvignon is “the special one” in Langhorne Creek, its pure varietal characters celebrated widely. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better representative of it than this, judged the best Cabernet and finally overall Champion Wine at the 2025 Langhorne Creek regional wine show. It exudes the variety’s classic cassis aromas in abundance and offers much more than just a pure berry fruit crush, pencil case cedar notes and wafts of bouquet garni providing savoury offsets that rebound in the palate as well. Better still, Cabernet often can be smacked a bit by its varietal tannin character, but not here, as a subtle and fine dusting in the finish raises this stylish, and crazily priced, example to a wine of elite class.

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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