Domaine Naturaliste Morus Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, so early in the morning!

This classic toddler’s nursery rhyme references a bush, but mulberries grow on trees. Domaine Naturaliste’s Morus cabernet is named for the mulberry tree Morus australis and for the mulberry character found in the heritage Margaret River Cabernet ‘Roche’ clone used for this wine. And it’s mulberry all right; intense concentration of mulberry, with black cherry and vanillin oak as bouquet with a hint of scrunched autumn leaves. It is fleshy and super appealing; a big ripe embrace of a wine with body, structure, lengthy finish and it’s delicious. It reminds me I don’t drink enough Cabernet by half. Drink now or hold for that toddler’s 18th. Yum.

Melissa Moore

Melissa began her hospitality career in London working for the Rolling Stones, returning to Australia at the dawn of the wine bar explosion in Melbourne to develop a deep love of wine, restaurants, beaches and much warmer weather. She has judged at several national and local wine shows including The Royal Sydney Show, the NSW Wine Awards and The Alternative Varieties Wine Show, and contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald with wine selection articles. Melissa was selected to be a scholar of the Len Evans’ Tutorial and was dux of the 2019 New Zealand Family of Twelve Tutorial. She was previously Head Sommelier at Merivale and is now Beverage and Operations Manager for the Love Tilly Group. She lives in Sydney with her family.