Stonehaven Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$80, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Coonawarra.
Cedar, spearmint and woodsmoke flavours run through blackcurrant, redcurrant, leather and dark chocolate. This is a substantial wine, courtesy of significant servings of both fruit and oak. Tannin, fine and assertive at once, plays an assertive but integrated role. There’s a lot of wine here. 93 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.
