Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2042
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All class! A beautifully captured regional statement that seamlessly delivers one classy wine. It’s hard to stop at one glass. Lifted aromas in violet, blackberry, cassis with crushed herbs, Aussie bush, pepper notes and background vanillin oak. There’s a complexity on the bouquet delivered just as indelibly on the palate and built around ripe fruit, fine tannins, a fleshy and smooth textural drive and some pretty smart and sophisticated oak treatment. Boasts a fine elegance that is also structurally firm. A lovely wine now, a better wine later.
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.
