Dellys Vineyard The Redstone Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Represents the warm 2018 vintage, considered a top year in the Pyrenees, extremely well. There is a liberal amount of oak on display in keeping with the generosity and richness of the vintage and the fruit produced.  Fortunately, it’s in balance and there’s also plenty of nuance to be explored. Blackstrap licorice, black fruits, gum leaf, a flash of attractive peppermint are joined by layers of earth, leather, shoe polish and attractive savoury notes. The scent alone will entice. This is one complex, lovely wine, warm and round, chocolatey and black fruited on the palate with additional and discreet charcuterie notes. A real meal in a glass kind of wine. Keep that mind when considering a suitable dining accompaniment – this wine demands something equally larger than life.

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