Teakle Wines Cabernet Merlot 2023
- 89
- $34
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The building blocks are firmly in place with this youngster. It’s at that gangly stage, all arms and legs and still coming together but the basis is well established with a central core of ripe, black fruit and woodsy spice. The palate is bright, medium bodied, lined in nutty, toasty oak notes and firm tannins – very Cabernet – with black fruits, spice and some lovely merlot bush florals, chocolate and plums filling out across the middle. A merger is on the cards, just a little more time.
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.
