Curtis Family Vineyards Cavaliere Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Curtis Family Vineyards Cavaliere Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
AU$70, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This wine is both stern and plush at once. It tastes of blackcurrant, gum leaf, gravel, cedarwood and sweet sawdust, with bay leaf and rust characters giving it an extra edge, and indeed lift. Those rust-like notes extent to a rusty, dry, characterful tannin profile, the latter contributing to the wine’s stern, structural persona. Roast lamb, char-grilled steak or anything from the barbecue really: this wine would be a beautiful partner to it.

94 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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