Punch Lance’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of punch lances cabernet sauvignon 2023.

Punch Lance’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$45, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley

This is a cool cabernet with dust, leaf and herb notes liberally strewn through boysenberry, loganberry and forest berry fruit flavours. Elegance is its middle name but it does come complete with comparatively assertive tannin, which at this early stage is still resolving itself. This cabernet will become prettier and softer as it matures; its elegance though will remain. It has a future. Pop it in a cool, dark place for four or five years and you will be rewarded. 92 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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