Smith And Hooper Cabernet Merlot 2023
- 93
- $26
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This combination of varieties has proved highly successful from the Limestone Coast in South Australia. Cabernet is providing that structural input while the merlot provides the lifted perfumed aromatics. But as a wine of substance with a generous palate supported by firmish fine tannins and displaying slightly spicy fresh red berry character, the black fruits and the power of the Cabernet will ensure this wine continues to evolve over the next ten years.
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.
