Marri Wood Park Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Fermented in large format and French oak barrels before being transferred to amphora and oak for a further four months with extended maceration in amphora. This is a power dart of black and blue fruits straight to your face, such is the intensity and aromatic lift. If being pummeled by black forest fruits isn’t for you, I call BS. Because this is energetic in its display of boysenberry and blueberry, and delivers its intensity with smothering kisses of graphite, thistle and poppy seed. It’s certainly not a wine you need to go searching for its flavour profile, tannins are fairly powdery and fine allowing for early drinking but it has the ability to show those earthly and turned potting soil notes with further aging. I would recommend between 5-8 years. For now, change out of your good white linen, pop a smock on and embrace the Cabernet blitz. Serve with a nice scotch fillet and some roast purple taro.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
