Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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Plenty to like here. It’s all ready to go now should you wish and, if you do, you will discover a delicious, fruit forward style replete in ripe, sweet black berries, dark cherry and red plum fruits. Fruit is the thing, the centrepiece, accompanied by background briar, crushed herbs and woody spice. Juicy and well composed with some handy concentration, there’s definitely plenty of flesh on these bones. The sweet fruit presence carries through impressively. Should you wish to cellar before opening, it won’t say no.
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.
