Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon 2024.

Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
AU$120, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This wine was grown exclusively on the Bekkers contoured vineyard at Clarendon. It’s made mostly with Cabernet Sauvignon (86%) though there’s also an inclusion of Cabernet Franc (14%). It was basket pressed to French oak, 34% new.

This cabernet offers both brightness and depth, its boysenberry and blueberry flavours running into deeper blackcurrant, its mint-like top notes coming infused with delicious smoked cedar. There’s a genuine rumble to the tannin, and an associated super-extension to the finish. This is not a big wine, it’s keen, silken and fresh, but it has excellent power and it will live long.

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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