Nightfall Aquila Cabernet Franc 2019
- 95
- $120
- Drink by: 2022-2037
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It’s fair to say that many Cabernet Francs made in this country are fairly simplistic wines. This is not one of those. It is a wine of poise and presence showing the qualities of this famous Right Bank variety, with fruit pressed directly into 100% new French oak where it spent nearly two years. It opens with perfumed florals on the nose then moves into bright red fruit on the palate. The chalky fine tannins play a significant role while the oak, despite the time, remains perfectly in harmony.
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.
