Brand & Sons Yates Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Brand & Sons Yates Cabernet Sauvignon 2024.

Brand & Sons Yates Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
AU$80, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is an emphatic Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon in anyone’s language. It’s rich, luscious, tannic and well-balanced, with excellent length, muscle, fruit and flair. It tastes of blackcurrant, gravel, blueberry, woodsmoke and choc-mint, and while it carries herbal inflections they are whispers at most – doing only enough to remind us that we are in cabernet territory, proud and true. This is a velvety wine with plenty of flex; it’s outstanding.

95+ 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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