Moppity Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$55, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
Moppity always has and likely always will grow great cabernet. This wine is yet more evidence. It’s sweet-fruited, pure, grunty, charged with tannin, soft and enlivened by herb notes – all at once. It has a jellied, minty accessibility but then it turns darker via olive, cedar and woodsmoke notes. It’s bang on for quality, once again. 94 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.
