Juniper Cornerstone Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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- $90
- Drink by: 2021 - 2034
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Wilyabrup, in many ways, offers the quintessential flavour of Margaret River cabernet sauvignon, the region’s celebrated red wine. You smell it, taste it immediately in the 2016 Cornerstone cabernet.
It’s like being air dropped into a local karri (aka, eucalyptus diversicolor) forest. The indelible scent of the Aussie bush, of bay leaf, earth and briar mixes beautifully with ripe red fruits, cassis. If ever there was a case of the terroir speaking through a wine, this is it.
Wine show judges can be harsh if eucalyptus/mint/bay leaf (it has many descriptors) dominates a wine. In this case, it’s a tantalising force for good, a condiment that elevates. And it must be said that while it is part of the tasting experience, the character acts in unison. Red and black fruits, spice, a light dusting of cedary, toasty oak all held in place in a net of fine tannins. The finish, long and clean, completes the complex picture. Longevity is impossible to guess but it is drinking very well right now.
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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.
