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
$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

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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist 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 prized 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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