Nightfall Leo Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

The Nightfall range might be a recent addition to the ranks of Australian fine wine, but for anyone who enjoys cracking Coonawarra wines, especially great Cabernet, they need to take these very seriously indeed. The packaging will attract many. The pricing may cause pause, but when these wines are tasted, they are going to win a lot of fans.

Dark magenta. This is all chocolate, cassis, fleshy, with smoked meat notes, dry herbs and bay leaves. There is oak but it is so surreptitious that you have to search for it and the balance is immaculate. This is intense on the palate too, but it is a wine which dances. The tannins are so silky that they are effectively invisible, and yet they coat the palate. This is focused, seamless and exhibiting very good length. Fresh and balanced, it is a cracking Coonawarra Cabernet. The Draco might sit as the flagship but for drinking over the next few years, this is the pick. It will go ten to fifteen years and then some.