Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.

Blue Pyrenees Estate Richardson Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
AU$120, 14% alcohol, DIAM cork, Pyrenees.

This was grown on a one-hectare block of cabernet that was planted 30 years ago (in 1996). It was matured in all-French oak, 40% new.

It’s a super cabernet. It’s awash with blueberry and blackcurrant flavour, essentially, though notes of anise, lavender, sweet spice and smoked cedar all wrap around beautifully, as indeed does regional mint. The control of this wine, the balance, the substance and the eventual length are all top-notch, though the long, wide web of tannin – perfectly integrated – is the real clincher. This wine isn’t easy-going; it’s imposing. It will perform well, over the long term, in the cellar, though its balance makes it highly enjoyable even now.

96 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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