Moppity Lock & Key Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Mattinson review of Moppity Lock & Key Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Moppity Lock & Key Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$30, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.

Moppity is a master grower/maker of cabernet, and this mastery is evident again here. We’re looking at medium-weight fruit flavours with inflections of dust, tobacco, mint and cloves, a subtle toasty-licoricey character pushing through the back half of the wine. The fruit itself presents as blackcurrant with inflections of mulberry and plum. This wine tastes and feels both varietal, and confident. You could tuck into it now – it has the inherent balance to drink well in its youth – but this will mature well for a decade, if not longer. 93 points.

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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