Red Knot Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Red Knot Shiraz 2023 ready for review.

Red Knot Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$11, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

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.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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