Joseph River Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A reserve wine that lives up to its name. As a five-year-old, it impresses with its youthful vitality and emerging complexity. This wine is only starting its journey and it’s got a while to go but, in the meantime, it is offering so, so much. Rest assured 2020 was a top year, hence, the aromatic lift of aromas in black berries, black plum, loganberry and dried herbs. The alcohol might suggest a big wine and while there is a density of plush ripe fruit it is enlivened by a lovely thread of leafy herbals in harmony with spice, quality oak and earth, trimmed and well-shaped in fine, firm tannins. It is a joy to see a Margaret River Cabernet released with some age under its belt and looking so darn good. And it’s on the upward ascent with undoubtedly the best still to come.
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.
