Brown Brothers Patricia Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

The King Valley in Victoria provides half of the fruit for this very fine Cabernet Sauvignon, Brown Brothers’ prestige release, the 22nd of this wine. Just over 1/3rd of the fruit hails from Bendigo with the remainder from the Yarra Valley. The wine spent twenty months in French oak barriques, 40% of which were new, for maturation. The colour is an inky dark maroon. The nose offers notes of black cherries, mulberries, spices, cigar box hints, blackberries licorice and plums. Power and concentration are the hallmark on the palate. This is a wine of decent length, leading through to furry tannins on a lingering finish. It surely has its best years in front of it. If you can leave it for three or four years and then drink it over the following twelve to fifteen, it will reward.