Hardys Thomas Hardy Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 96
- $170
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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Nearly 95% of this wine was sourced from Margaret River, with the remainder from McLaren Vale. The 2020 vintage in Margaret River was short and sharp but produced wines of tremendous concentration and intensity, and that’s the case here. Blackcurrant, dark chocolate, black olive, and a slight bay-leaf influence provide an engaging aromatic opening. The palate is built on powerful fruit intensity and deep, dark black fruits, with plenty of oak and some firmish tannins for support. There is a driving intensity here, in a wine that will certainly evolve with time.
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.
