This premium McLaren Vale Cab offers a pleasing combo of varietal notes like pencil lead, blackberry, currant and eucalyptus, with an underlying cola-oak character. The oak becomes more prominent as it warms in the glass, and it particularly shows on the palate, where tannins feel barrel-derived, drying and rasping. Without fleshy fruit to hold it up, it comes off, for now anyway, as a lean, mean oak machine. With time, it should soften into the wine. Hopefully there will be enough fruit and texture to withstand the test of time. Drink 2022–2030.
This premium McLaren Vale Cab offers a pleasing combo of varietal notes like pencil lead, blackberry, currant and eucalyptus, with an underlying cola-oak character. The oak becomes more prominent as it warms in the glass, and it particularly shows on the palate, where tannins feel barrel-derived, drying and rasping. Without fleshy fruit to hold it up, it comes off, for now anyway, as a lean, mean oak machine. With time, it should soften into the wine. Hopefully there will be enough fruit and texture to withstand the test of time. Drink 2022–2030.
This premium McLaren Vale Cab offers a pleasing combo of varietal notes like pencil lead, blackberry, currant and eucalyptus, with an underlying cola-oak character. The oak becomes more prominent as it warms in the glass, and it particularly shows on the palate, where tannins feel barrel-derived, drying and rasping. Without fleshy fruit to hold it up, it comes off, for now anyway, as a lean, mean oak machine. With time, it should soften into the wine. Hopefully there will be enough fruit and texture to withstand the test of time. Drink 2022–2030.