J. Lohr Estates Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of J. Lohr Estates Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles 2022.

J. Lohr Estates Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
14% alcohol, cork, Paso Robles/US.

This is one of the biggest-selling cabernets in the US; production is north of a million dozen. The impressive thing here is that this wine includes the “green sticker” on the back label, which certifies that it’s been sustainably grown. This makes it the largest production wine in the US to have this certification.

Oak influence here is strong. It tastes of ozone, cedarwood, mint, fragrant herbs, redcurrants and roasted, toasty vanillin notes. Tannin is fine-grained and ripe, and so long as you like the taste and feel of oak, there’s very good flavour on offer here. Indeed it's a polished, professional example of a caricatured, cabernet style. 90-91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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