Cape Mentelle Heritage Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Always a star performer, Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon shines brightest at this super premium level with a seamless beauty and complexity. The winemaker knows the fruit well and it shows in the melding of fruit, oak and tannin, delivering real presence in the glass. Cabernet lovers will rejoice in the classic varietal aromas of blackberry, black cherry, plum with a sprinkling of green peppercorn, acacia, mint, earth and vanilla. Sweet fruited through and through, warm in texture and layered in black fruits, mint, leafy herbals, violet florals with a lasting – and attractive – dusty, peppery finish. Tannins are firm – a boost for a long future – and fine – something that makes it approachable right now. The best of both worlds.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic