Pepper Tree Rock Knob Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2021-2028
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Wine writers use a lot of descriptors. Some are clear-cut, others less so. Let’s take the word ‘elegant.’ I’ve applied it to Rock Knob in my tasting notes. Despite the slightly inelegant title, all the wine’s individual components hum with a beautiful elegance. There are no sharp angles, no boisterous attention-seeking. Everything is in its place. Black and red berries abound with gentle spice aromas. The alcohol is getting up there, 14.8%, but the wine remains medium-bodied. The palate is smooth and moves into savoury shades with a touch of tapenade among the blackberry and leafy Aussie bush notes. Touch of earth and cigar box oak characters keep things grounded, the light violet floral notes bring balance. Tannins are fine. So, all up, it’s definitely an elegant wine. Happy drinking.
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.
