Cape Mentelle Icon Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

The Endeavour Group acquired Cape Mentelle from Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton earlier this year. It has moved fast to make some changes to its new release wines, including Icon status for what were the previous super premium wines. The Icon 2020 cabernet is certainly impressive, a powerful and powerfully persuasive interpretation of Margaret River’s premier red grape variety. Solid purple-garnet hues. A top vintage brings out the full array of regional aromas and fruit intensity: sage, thyme, marri bush, leafy and floral with bramble, black cherry, blackberry fruit lift. The palate is juicy and rich, plush and beautifully trimmed by fine, ripe tannins. Consolidates effortlessly, introducing earth and tarmac, dusty cacao and deep herbals while led by some scintillating Cabernet fruit.

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