Arlewood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Arlewood Cabernet Sauvignon

Arlewood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$50, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

It smells like cabernet, tastes like cabernet and feels like cabernet. Blackcurrant, gum leaf, toast and tobacco characters create a strong impression. There’s a dry, sinewy, slightly meaty aspect to this wine but there’s also ample fruit to make it work. Give this a little more time in bottle and it should develop more flesh and flow, and be all the better for it. But without or without that extra time this wine has all the hallmarks of a fine Cabernet Sauvignon. 92 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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