Pirathon Silver Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2020 - 2028
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The rush to buy Barossa Valley shiraz doesn’t leave much room in the shopping trolley for Barossa cabernet. Shame.
It’s sitting quietly on the shelves, often ignored, waiting patiently for greater recognition. Pirathon gives the grape a bit of a leg up with a 2018 example from the Moppa sub-region that combines generosity a la Barossa style in combination with a distinctive cabernet expression.
The scent is redolent of mulberry, cassis, black cherry, earth.
Supple and flavoursome, it is the line of fine tannin running the length of the palate that brings a real sense of presence and structure in the glass, the suggestion of elegance even, providing guidance to the flavours of violet, ripe black berries, woody spice, licorice and vanilla.
It’s a dense, flowing cabernet style that will make an impression about Barossa cabernet that is for the good.
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.
