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

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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