Watkins Cellar Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Watkins Cellar Reserve Shiraz 2017.

Watkins Cellar Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
$35, 13.9% alcohol, screwcap, Langhorne Creek.

This wine, at seven years of age, is mellow and soft but there’s still a strength to its fruit, both in flavour and in feel. It tastes of leather, redcurrant, mint and tobacco, with a general “autumnal” feel coming through courtesy of the maturing/ageing process. Velvety tannin – which adds spread to the wine, especially as the wine breathes – is an attractive finishing touch. 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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