Watkins Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
- 91
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Just to put this in perspective at the start: it’s vegan, gluten-free, and made sustainably. So if that’s your bag, it’s a pretty good wine. In fact, it’s better than pretty good. It’s from what was a very good season in Langhorne Creek, and the nose displays a nice mix of dark chocolate and blackcurrant fruit with a slightly leafy mint character, which you expect from this region. It’s smooth and supple, with understated tannins providing support but not overstating it. The oak is gently handled, and there’s a nice spicy lift on the finish. It’s a wine that really cries out for drinking in the short term.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
