Walburra Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Immediately, resolutely, displays an air of class. There’s an upfront purity of Cabernet Sauvignon in intense aromas of crushed herbs, blackberry, cassis, spice. It’s a trademark Margaret River character captured well by the viticulturist and amplified by the winemaker. The palate is tight and focused with sturdy tannins holding court. While it is clearly very early in its development, this young Cabernet is slowly unwinding and revealing not only a solid structure for a bright future ahead, but a body of finely detailed Cabernet fruit dressed in smart oak. The wine’s leafy herbal interplay is a special attraction. All up, a memorable Margs ’22 Cabernet. Definitely a new wine name for me and one to remember. It shows a confidence with Cabernet that elevates it into a class above the ordinary.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic