Yalumba Signature Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Yalumba Signature Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2019.

Yalumba Signature Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2019
$65, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

In quality terms, for a traditional, full-bodied Australian red wine, this is as bankable an asset as you will encounter. It nails the brief 100%. Its flavours are dark, brooding, deep and delicious; its tannin profile is both integrated and rock solid, and the length of the finish – awash with toasted herbs, tobacco, gum leaf and cedar-cream characters – is impeccably long. This wine is svelte, rich and refined. It’s also – for a wine with such a history of excellence – remarkably well priced too. 95 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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