Reschke RSR Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
$75, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Coonawarra.
Amazing freshness and form on offer here. This wine is thirteen years old and it’s in great shape. Leather, boysenberry, blackcurrant, licorice, mint and toasted tobacco notes put on enticing show throughout, and are well sustained through the finish as well. This is a wine of quality but it’s also a wine of charm. 93 points.
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 both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.
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.
