Stella Bella Luminosa Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 97
- $110
- Drink by: 2024-2043
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A fine example of the poise and beauty that Margaret River brings to the Cabernet grape. It’s a slow reveal, quite tantalising, and so artfully laid out before the drinker with so much left for a later date. Luminosa is always built with a big future in mind. However, the brightness of the wine, its youthful clarity, does not preclude enjoyment right now. Dark berries, star anise, cassis and woodsy spice with a gentle, slowly winding feature of leafiness that never exceeds its role, but serves as a reminder that this is, after all, a classic Cabernet. Tannins are fine, bringing structure and the kind of support needed for its long journey ahead. Pitch perfect Cabernet.
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.
