Curtis Cavaliere McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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McLaren Vale is well known for its classy and outstanding Shiraz, and yet when the season is right, Cabernet really excels, and this one is a ripper. Aromas of red berry, spice and subtle, understated oak with an exotic floral note. The palate is intense with great structure thanks to the firmish, fine tannins and the neatly applied oak. This is a wine with long-term cellaring, but it also offers drinking in the shorter term because of its precise balance.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
