Lindeman’s St George Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 97
- $70
- Drink by: 2025 - 2050
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Coonawarra cabernet sauvignon: when it’s good it’s mighty good, and this one is mighty good. A gorgeous expression of Coonawarra cabernet from an outstanding season that produced wines of power and elegance. This displays the intense Coonawarra blackcurrant fruit with a little black olive and bay leaf that screams cabernet delivered with typical Coonawarra style. This is where Coonawarra excels with such beautiful weight that caresses rather than bombards the senses. It’s effortless and very long and a wine with long term cellaring potential. For context I also tasted the 2015 which showed many similar vineyard characters with that minerally edge and distinct elegant palate length. And the 2010 which seemed to be in a time warp as it had hardly moved in its journey to maturity. Of the three outstanding wines tasted, the 2018 was my pick.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
