Red Knot Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Red Knot Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
AU$11, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

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It smells like Cabernet Sauvignon, which is a good start. A lot of cabernets at this price level just smell like a “dry red” and could really be any grape variety. This smells leafy and dusty and generally herbal, though there’s a good underpinning of sweet, ripe, jellied fruit flavour. Blueberry and plum territory, with a smidgen of blackcurrant. It’s half decent. In fact it’s pretty good. This is four-years-old but it stills feels/smells/tastes fresh. At $11 you’re definitely ahead of the ledger here.

88 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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