Stella Bella Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 95
- $42
- Drink by: 2023-2036
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In complete contrast to the youthful liveliness of the new release Stella Bella Shiraz, comes the new release Cabernet Sauvignon. This is one serious and dark Cabernet. The use of oak is a good indication of its intent. Its cedary, smoky prominence and presence alongside richly layered fruit indicates a wine of some age-worthiness. Fine cut oak tannins that bring a firm structure to the wine confirm it. Cabernet to its core in blackberry, earth, crushed leaf and undergrowth, it’s lifted nicely by cinnamon, clove and anise spice and the aromatic beauty of violets. The scent and flavour of the soil, savoury and at times, fungal, sits perfectly with the lifted black fruits and spice and fine tannins. A wine of power and presence and poise.
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.
