Hutton Vale Farm Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 96
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2041
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The Single Vineyard in question here is 385m high in the Eden Valley and in 2021 it produced an intricate, complex and layered wine. Starts out in aromas of undergrowth, earth, black fruits and gentle spices, and then it takes off on the palate. Explores herbs and a warm, autumnal leafiness with plums, cassis and black fruits, red liquorice and a rich, sweet spiciness. It offers a pure expression of Cabernet, silky textured, firm but fine in tannin, and while the wine saw 19 months in French barriques (25% new), the oak is in total harmony. This is a wine full of presence in the glass.
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.
