Cape Mentelle Wallcliffe Cabernet Franc 2021
- 94
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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A wine to open your eyes – not to mention, tastebuds – to the delights of the Cabernet Franc grape. Grown at Wallcliffe, west of the Margaret River township and close to the Indian Ocean, the warm Mediterranean climate is well-suited to the grape. A challenging wet vintage has given rise to an attractive mix of herbals that work well with the grape’s naturally generous aromatics. Ripe red berries, plum and high rose petal aromatics offer an inviting welcome. The palate, built on a firm base of lovely, fine tannins, is warm in texture and inviting in ripe fruits, rose, baking spices, dried herbs, briar, leaf and twig notes. Wouldn’t say no to some further ageing.
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.
