Zonte’s Footstep Blackberry Patch Cabernet 2019
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2020 - 2028
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Succulent, juicy and delicious. And that’s just the raw material at picking which has been turned into a medium-bodied cabernet sauvignon that dials in new dimensions and flavours that capture the varietal and
regional characters of cabernet from the Fleurieu Peninsula of SA.
From the start there are distinctive aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry with an aromatic cedary tobacco lift which announce this as cabernet
sauvignon. It’s a generous wine of some elegance which leans more towards medium-bodied but still with the essential power and core structure of cabernet well-balanced between the grainy tannins, oak,
and powerful fruit. It all works well together.
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.
