Chateau Cabos Bordeaux 2023
$40, 14% alcohol, cork, Bordeaux/France.
This is a firm red with savouriness pushing equally as hard as pure fruit flavour. It tastes of chicory and balsamic, pencils and leather, currants and boysenberries, with herbal notes both well measured and never too far away. This wine is ripe but not sweet; it’s dry all the way along. 89 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
