Yering Station Yarra Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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This is a Cabernet in two parts. Just opened, the wine sits quietly in the glass, unassuming, not daring to reveal. Is that it, you ask yourself? The answer is no. I left the wine. Actually, I forgot about it and an hour or more later I returned. After being open for a while, a deeper, richer vein of Cabernet flavour revealed itself, one of concentrated black fruit intensity, herbals, leaf and gentle spice. Tannins were well-knitted and firm. The wine had become fully energised and alive. It was delicious . . . eventually. What a chameleon.
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.
