Mitchelton Estate Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
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Okay, okay, I know that we here in Victoria may not have as much street cred compared to McLaren, Margie and Coonawarra when it comes to cabernet. But wily wine drinkers know that when we make it, we make it darn well. I cracked this one with a friend after work one night. We both gave it a spin, a sip and a taste, then looked at each other and said: ‘Cabernet’.
I love it when you get everything you want from a grape. There’s melting mint chocolate, dusty spice, fresh cut plum, ripe blackberry juice and splintered cedar on the nose. Lower yields give the fruit a concentrated ripeness on the attack, one that spills and spreads all over the palate, taking all that sweet spice with it. Tannins are a little grainy and a little dusty to begin with, well defined and almost traceable. They flesh out with time, becoming softer as the fruit becomes plusher and the wine divulges more of its complexity.
Mitchelton Estate was in part founded by Australian wine icon, Colin Preece, a man renowned for his blending skills. I wager he’d be mighty pleased to drink such a refined and well-put together wine.
Morgan Dunn was a Melbourne based sommelier with over 10 years of experience. He was one of our very first Winepilots and wrote a regular wine column for The Australian and contributed to various publications including Noble Rot. In 2017 he was named 'Emerging Wine Writer of the Year' at the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards as well as receiving the Wine Communicators of Australia award for 'Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column'. He spoke Japanese and was planning to write a book on Tokyo wine bars and wine culture in Japan. In his spare time Morgan played piano, enjoyed snowboarding and went to Escape Rooms with his twin brother. He is deeply missed by many.
