Springs Road Kangaroo Island Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
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- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2034
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Kangaroo Island is noted for some terrific Cabernets. The ’22 comes with a full sense of ripeness and nicely concentrated flavours. Among the black plum, dark fruit, dried herbs, acacia, briar, bay leaf and earth, there is a touch of peppermint/Aussie bush excitement that really lifts the palate, providing a point of tasting difference. Fermentation was finished in barrel and maturation was in French oak (30% new) for 12 months, and the oak has definitely been well crafted producing ripe, supple tannins which work beautifully in their role.
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.
