Mr Riggs Outpost Cabernet 2025
AU$25, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.
This is a minty cabernet with both redcurrant and blackcurrant flavours running throughout. It carries minor herb and leaf characters but it’s essentially fruit-driven with lots of mint and gum leaf top notes. It has no rough edges, is well fruited, and it drinks well.
90 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
