Stella Bella Suckfizzle Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2024-2036
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Some of the most common Margaret River Cabernet descriptors are density, power, nuance. I would add elegant as a suitable identifying trait; you know when you are tasting it. Suckfizzle in 2022 captured the yin and the yang of the grape, especially the power and the nuance. The black and red fruits, blackberry, blackcurrant intensity signals a solid, ripe fruit base joined by lifted violet aromatics and regional bay leaf notes. Layer upon layer, woodsmoke oak spice, cinnamon, clove, leafy herbals and fruit are moulded together by firm tannins. Together, it all works in unison. The effect is very Margaret River, generous but not too much, dense and lush but structured, too, and ultimately, elegant.
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.
