Stella Bella Suckfizzle Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2023-2034
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A penetrating Cabernet varietal intensity is on display here. It’s something to behold with plenty of polish and concentration in the glass and all in a wine still so young. Undergrowth, tilled earth, the blackest of fruits and violet floral aromas. Steps up a gear on a firm palate laid out across long, fine-grained tannins. Brings wild berries and anise into the frame alongside blueberries, earth, leaf, spice, cocoa powder with a nice undertow of cedar, vanilla pod following through. Well measured now but probably more for future enjoyment.
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.
