Driftwood Artifacts Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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A strong follow-up to the 2020 vintage Artifacts Cabernet. The ’21 carries a similar degree of fine-ness, medium in body with sinewy, cherry-pip dry tannins. If anything, the new release is tighter, firmer and in need of a little more swishing and contact with air to do a full reveal. When it does, it captures a vibrant Margaret River bush mint perfume with acacia and a touch of floral lavender against a background of black cherry, plum and anise. Carries signature Cabernet leafy herbals and black fruits are nicely understated with a good line of tannin and just a smidge of woodsy oak. That herb-flecked flavour carries through to a long finish.
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.
