Parker Coonawarra Estate Terra Rossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Let’s celebrate wines that over-deliver. We need more of them. Parker Coonawarra Estate Terra Rossa falls easily into that category. This is $34 worth of determined flavour delivered in a warm, inviting embrace. It’s Cabernet Sauvignon down to its bootstraps, but far from vegetative. Instead, we enjoy aromas rich in a budding generosity with blackcurrant, mint, earth, anise and lively spice. Quiet but determined is the best description. Spice-ladden flavours mix with black fruits across a wide, flavour-packed palate with an additional touch of dried herbs, a black olive savouriness and lasting spice. The oak deserves special mention – 12 months in 100% French oak, 40% new – and its sweet oak cedar, toastiness really brings something extra together with a delivery of fine tannins. What value here! Now, I’m not suggesting for one moment that the maker put the price up. No! What I am suggesting is we enjoy this wine for its utter deliciousness and fair price. I can count on all fingers and toes wines that don’t deliver at their price point. This isn’t one of them.