Suckfizzle Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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A big price tag, a top vintage and a wine that comes finely layered and complex. It’s a youngster, that much is also sure, and will blossom with more time in bottle cementing itself as a serious and seriously good Margaret River Cabernet. Pristine fruit fills the scent in blackberry, cassis with blueberry, violet florals, leaf and briar. The palate is built on a core of super fine tannins, running dry and gossamer fine. How does the winemaker do that? Acidity is equally just as focused aiding to the tautness of the wine’s structure. Dried leaves, Aussie bush notes, bay leaf, anise and integrated oak are cloaked in juicy black fruits and blackcurrant pastille notes. Can still be considered a bit of a sleeper with its best moments yet to come.
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.
