Driftwood Wines Margaret River Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
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- $70
- Drink by: 2022-2036
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Classic blackcurrant, mint, smoky cedar meets leafy, herbals in this elegant Margaret River red. The Margs’ Cabernet style is all about plushness of fruit that is instantly appealing, not to mention immediately varietally recognisable. It cannot be anything else but Cabernet. Stunning colour in the glass in glistening dark plum-purple. Aromas are heady offering a herbal/autumnal, black-berried complexity. Eighteen months maturation in French oak adds another delicious layer of flavour, complimented by fine, sapid tannins and a soft mineral salinity. Is that the nearby Indian Ocean playing a mineral role in the finished wine, or mere suggestion? I’d like to think it’s the former.
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.
