Elderton Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 92
- $34
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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This was a super vintage in the Barossa and the fruit was sourced from vineyards across the region
including the relatively new acquisition at Greenock. It once again shows that when the Barossa gets
it right, cabernet excels. This opens with lifted red berry notes on the nose with high tone perfumes.
A nice cedary character mingles with sweet fruit on the palate creating a succulent rich flavour of
medium weight. It’s a focussed and most stylish wine which extends seamlessly and effortlessly to a
very long finish. This was a great vintage in the Barossa and the younger vine fruit was exceptional, which is what has gone into this wine, which is focussed and stylish before a long finish. The oak treatment is particularly impressive with mostly older French oak puncheons used, allowing the fruit to reveal its bright and lively energy.
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.
