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
AU$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.

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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