Flametree Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2022-2034
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Just another super example of cabernet from the 2018 vintage. This is a thoroughly scrumptious cabernet selling for less than $50 – crazy stuff quite frankly because it punches so far above its weight it’s not funny. Perfumed notes of blackcurrant and mulberry with a square or two of dark chocolate. The palate is generous and harnessed by fine tannins and beautifully integrated oak. There’s a fine sinewy core that gives it structural purpose in that classically cabernet style. If you’re looking for a cellaring wine of 10 or more years for less than $50 then this baby is right on the money.
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.
