Thorn-Clarke William Randell Eden Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2021-2033
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The 2018 vintage was a warm one, hence the richness in this wine. It was also considered a good year, hence the natural balance on show. While flavours are rich, ripe and warm, they remain nicely corralled by fine, dense Cabernet tannins and vibrant acidity. It’s a balancing act performed especially well. Colour is impenetrable and deep in red-garnet. Mulberries, cassis, blueberries, chocolate, cassia bark, clove, nutmeg, Christmas cake aromas. It’s expansive, sweet and lifted. Well composed, the palate is nicely tended in dark fruits, spice, dried herbs and chocolatey, woodsy oak. Eden Valley is a region noted for spicy Shiraz. Glad to see Cabernet Sauvignon standing up tall and making its mark.
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.
