Yalumba The Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Restraint and complexity are the calling cards here, with suave notes of bay leaf, fine cedar, blackcurrant pastille, vanilla paste, graphite and gravel sitting deep in the glass. A good swirl reveals rubbed mint, black olive, dried herbs and allusions of pan juices. The palate is at once elegant and intense, with a cool graphite minerality providing lift and interest. Cedar, vanilla pod and redcurrant lead before black olive, mint, plum and bay leaf take over. It’s all wrapped up in firm, stacked grainy tannins and a piercing line of mint-laced acidity that draws the wine very long. There’s a lot going on here — a classic Coonawarra Cabernet of complexity and poise. Ten years or more in the cellar will see this hit its straps nicely.