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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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