Nightfall Single Vineyard Draco Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Nightfall Single Vineyard Draco Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

Nightfall Single Vineyard Draco Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$250, 15% alcohol, cork, Coonawarra.

This is cabernet sauvignon to its back teeth, in the best of ways. It presents a beautiful mix of sweet, bold fruit and complex, nuanced leaf characters, though it does this in a seamless way, with all of its stitches hidden. Its tastes of blackcurrant, licorice, redcurrant and tobacco, with smoky, coffeed oak nestled right in there with the fruit. The tannin of this wine is assertive as well but then, it’s harmonious and complementary. There’s an overt power to this wine. There’s thick, velvety flavour. It’s a wine of stuffing and then some. 95 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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