Jim Barry Spring Farm Block 74 Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Jim Barry Spring Farm Block 74 Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

Jim Barry Spring Farm Block 74 Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
AU$200, 13.4% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.

This is from a block planted in 1977. It’s a dry, cool, elegant Cabernet Sauvignon of enormous presence and remarkable freshness. It’s also tannic in the most laser-like of ways, its sheets of tannin flashing through the wine like light, or rather like light that can be felt, as if when you drink this wine you stand beside a light pole, and feel its beam, not to mention its sturdiness, and its standing. This is cabernet. This is the Clare.

96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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