Jack Estate Mythology Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
$55, 14% alcohol, cork, Coonawarra.
Thirteen years old and yet there’s a still a good rush of primary, curranty fruit to be tucked into here. This wine is in very good nick. Boysenberry, leather, mint and redcurrant flavours run into cream, tobacco and toast. This is medium-weight at most but it’s full of charm. 91 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.
