Wills Domain Paladin Hill Matrix 2021
- 93
- $110
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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A Cabernet blend – no other details available – but you get the general idea. It’s a terrific Cabernet combo, one that gives full rein to the aromatic power that such a blend can bring, together with an interesting, savoury, wild side. With full ripeness (14% abv) on board the aromas are rich in black fruit intensity, dried herbs, black olive, earth and truffle notes. The palate is ample and fleshy, sporting stylish smoky, pencil shavings oak and Aussie bush notes among the layers of dark berries and spice. Oak is a smidge forward, but this is a wine with time on its hands. It’s got a long life ahead and those oak tannins and complexity will be called upon.
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.
