Gentle Giant Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
$15, 13.8% alcohol, screwcap, Victoria.
This is a simple, fruit-driven wine with mulberry, plum and redcurrant flavours as the main drivers, aided by earth, briar and mint. It’s clean, fresh, well-shaped and generally uncomplicated, in a good way. 89 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
