Brand & Sons Family Reserve Cabernets 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Brand & Sons Family Reserve Cabernets 2021

Brand & Sons Family Reserve Cabernets 2021
$85, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is a red wine with a serious swagger. It’s a muscular cabernet with cocoa, blackcurrant, mint and roasted tobacco characters flooding the palate with flavour, and with strong arms of tannin as an integral accompaniment. This is an imposing figure of a wine. It's flavoursome, structural and lengthy. It’s drinking well now, courtesy of its balance, but it will pretty much cellar for as long as you want it to. 94 points.

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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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