Watkins Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Watkins Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

Watkins Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$25, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Langhorne Creek.

This is a mid-weight red wine with just enough velvet to the mouthfeel to make you think that you’re onto something good. It tastes of blackcurrant, mint, plum and dried herbs, though really it just tastes and feels seamless and cohesive. There’s a salty, olive-like note to the aftertaste but there’s also ripe fruit flavour there too. The take-home here is: this is a good, mid-weight wine, and good value. 90 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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