Passing Clouds Bendigo Cabernet 2021
- 96
- $64
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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This was a fabulous vintage in Bendigo, like much of the rest of the east coast of Australia, and the wine reflects that. It’s an exceptional wine displaying powerful Cabernet fruit with an effortless and stylish degree of elegance and refinement. The colour is bright, a deep red ruby colour, and there are aromas of blackberry and glazed cherry with a little leafy, almost bay leaf, olive tapenade aromatic. The tannins are chewy with a slightly chalky feel and probably reflect the 100 days that the wine was left on skins. This is a generous wine with its deep concentration requiring a decent oak addition, and yet it is not an oaky wine. This is a super wine of elegance and charm that captures everything you might want to see in a Bendigo Cabernet.
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.
