Joseph River Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 93
- $90
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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Big hearted and generous, this five-year-old Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon is looking mighty smart right now. The producer has done right by the vintage and style, releasing it with some bottle age but, still, it would love a decant or swish or three. In fact, the second day after opening probably brought a little more precision and clarity to the beauty of the fruit. Blackberry, blackcurrant, intense and concentrated, join loganberry, baking spices, chocolate, with just a touch of regional bay leaf and some gently savoury, smoked goods notes. The fruit in harmony with a gentle herbal interplay is the real star of this wine, just lovely. Tannins are sapid but fine and well-placed assisting in structure, but far from interrupting the flow and length of the wine and it goes long. A strong, classy Margs Cabernet.
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.
