Springs Road Kangaroo Island Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

The team purchased vineyards on Kangaroo Island in 2016. They had been planted with Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay between 1994 and 2000. As with the Shiraz, the wine spends a year maturing in French oak, around 30% new. An opaque maroon, this is dense and powerful with notes of cassis, tobacco leaves, mulberries, blackcurrants, aniseed, soy and cloves. A wine of medium weight, good balance, decent length and fine tannins, there is a firm finish with hints of herbs and a touch of eucalyptus. Good persistence with the power still in evidence, this is a wine which still has considerable potential. Enjoy over the next twelve years. Buy it to support the Island’s recovery or buy it because it is terrific drinking.