Punch Lance’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

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  • $45
  • Drink by: 2025-2033

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The Lance Vineyard Cabernet is approaching its 50th year – it was planted in 1976 – and is definitely old vine in status. This is a confident, assured youngster, still a little arms and legs, but the basis for a complex wine is already set, it just needs time to fill out. Remains true to its variety in concentrated black cherry, black berry, cranberry, earth, gentle herbs with an ongoing leafy complexity. A whisper of eucalypt adds a bright note. The palate is marked out in strong tannins, nicely even, before finishing cherry pip dry.

Jeni Port
Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Jeni Port
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Cabernet, Cabernet Sauvignon
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines