Jilyara The Williams’ Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

You’ve got to love a happy ending – and a mighty enjoyable happy ending at that. The 2021 vintage in Margaret River was mixed weather-wise to start, but for the later ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, it was all good timing. The results are here to enjoy in a well-structured and detailed Cabernet that shows the strengths of Margaret River’s number one red grape. The aroma sets the scene in blueberries, black and red fruits, crushed herbs, black pepper and chocolate lifted aromatically by attractive florals. Three years old, fresh and alive, the palate is laced in fine tannins, the perfect playing field for some persistent and ripe black, red and blue berry, soft-edged herbals and warm oak-led spices to indulge your senses.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic