Di Fabio Estate Cellar Series Cabernet Franc 2018
- 92
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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This was a very good year in McLaren Vale and it’s been captured superbly in this now mature Cabernet Franc. It shows that this variety can stand up in its own right and, when the season is good, produce wine of strength and powerful intensity while retaining the elegance and refinement that is typical of this variety in Australia. It’s showing some nice, slightly gamey black fruit characters on the nose with a little spicy leather. The palate is well crafted with good oak influence and a fine chalky tannin influence that threads through to sustain the finish. For me, this wine is drinking just about where it should right now, although a few extra years wouldn’t hurt it.
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.
