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.
This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (founded in 2002, and the home of Australia’s best Australian wine reviews) and Mattinson Photography.
Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award.
Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.
