Haselgrove The Protector Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Haselgrove The Protector Cabernet Sauvignon 2023.

Haselgrove The Protector Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is both a substantial wine and a very good one. It’s buoyant with flavour and structurally too it’s rock solid. It tastes of blackcurrant, boysenberry, cedarweood and vanilla cream, with mint top notes adding extra lift. Tannin here is firm, neat and appropriately proportioned to the volume of (fresh) fruit. What’s particularly impressive here is the length of the finish, which extends beyond the ordinary. 94 points.

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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