Queen of the Earth Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 94
- $86
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A quiet, coiled Margaret River Cabernet just waiting, waiting. It definitely has structure and time on its side and is not a wine to be rushed or reveal all immediately. Deep colour and plenty of dark cherry, redcurrant, raspberry fruit aromas with a pinch of dried herbs, warm earth, spice and a hint of bay leaf. It’s a complex youngster, coiled in firm tannins but remains smooth running across the palate bringing crushed herbs, capsicum and leaf into the frame with ripe dark summer berries, spice and integrated background oak. Indeed, the long, lasting memory of this wine are the leafy crushed herbs and the distinctive, bright Cabernet capsicum pyrazines to close.
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.
