Flowstone Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$45, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
This wine marches to the beat of its own drum. It tastes of blackcurrant and game, smoke and mint, with musk, menthol and raspberry characters layered over the top. Dry tannin rips through the back half of the wine but the smoky juiciness of the fruit continues to push on. Cohesion isn’t this wine’s best friend and yet there’s still plenty ty here to be enjoyed. 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.
