| Winery |
Yalumba Distinguished Sites The Cigar Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 |
| Vintage |
2016 |
| Region |
Coonawarra |
| Grape |
Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Style |
Red Wine |
| Sweetness |
Dry |
| Body |
Full |
| Tasting note |
Really impressive depth and poise, this offers aromas of blueberries, cassis, chocolate and dark plums, ahead of a deeply rich palate that is bathed in ripe, fleshy cabernet fruit. The tannins serve the wine well. By James Suckling.
Lower than average winter rainfall and a warmer spring and summer have produced an exuberant Cabernet, with a sweet ripe blueberry and cassis aroma. Sourced from Yalumba's Menzies vineyard in Coonawarra, it retains juicy persistent and savoury tobacco lift and tapenade undertones. Aged in French barriques and hogsheads (20% new), with graphite tannins and pencil shaving notes, it tick all the Cabernet boxes. An out-and-out charmer with a spring in its step. By Decanter. |
| Rating |
JS94 / Decanter 93 |
| ABV |
14.5% |
| Size |
750ml |
