Jack Estate Mythology Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
$55, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
Ten years old and ready to be consumed now. Autumn leaves, brown tobacco, briar bush and bay leaf notes run through leather, boysenberry, redcurrant and mint. It doesn’t offer a great deal of flavour through the mid palate but it builds as it moves through the mouth, and has an attractive burst of bright flavour as you swallow. 90 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.
