One Road Cabernet Merlot 2020
- 88
- $8
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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The scent of the wild Australian bush – eucalypt, bay leaf, briar – makes a lasting impression. Deep, blackberry notes join up on the palate and while the fruit is sweet and ripe it is dominated by the presence of a penetrating eucalyptus that doesn’t let go. This can be a divisive question among wine drinkers. When is the scent and taste of eucalyptus too much? Yes, it can be simply a testament to the site/s in which the wine was grown (and the proximity of gum trees to vines), but it can also play too big a role throwing a wine out of balance. Fortunately, the ripeness of fruit prevails – just – and a gentle leafiness and middle palate texture – helps save the day.
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Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
