Cabernet, the other other red meat of the Hunter Valley. Lake's Folly makes the best Cabernet-based wines in the Hunter, and there is a smattering of other plantings, but this …
I've done a quick Google to discover this Pikes The Dogwalk Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, available retail for $19.99. It's a shitload of wine for $20. More importantly, this tastes like a …
Tasting young Cabernet on release is occasionally unfun, with tannins working against drinkability (and costing Cabernet some fans for sure). This Juniper Three Fields Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 is a great …
After Friday's post about $100+ Champagne, today I want to highlight how much wine you can get for $35 or more. This collection has a simple motive - purely flavoursome …
Chapel Hill's Cabernets actually taste like McLaren Vale Cabernet, which is a very good thing for a region with such a proud Cabernet history. The Chapel Hill Gorge Block Cabernet …
Not all wines can be great. Plenty are just ‘ok drinks’, and some are just bad… Here are 30 wines that almost made the silver medal grade in September 2024. From …
It's very kind of Juniper to deliver a prime Margaret River Cabernet with a few extra years on it. This Juniper Cornerstone Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 is in a good …
This fortnight on Australian Wine and Drinks Review I'm attacking the 'big red' backlog of samples with fresh vigour. It has to be reds as well because the fresh hole …
Following in the mode of the 2022 version of the same wine, but maybe a little more composed (thanks to time in bottle). Dark, leafy, pencilly Yarra claret scents but …
Making rosé from Cabernet Sauvignon seems like a good idea at the time, but managing the pyrazine herbaceousness makes it an occasionally problematic existence (unless you dial up the residual …
Hello big boy! Nothing in the Paulmara range is light in flavour, and this Paulmara Estates Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 isn't breaking the mould. Then again, it's a Barossan red with …
There's variability in the Hirsch Hill range (and I've received a bunch of wines with no finished label), so let's call it a winery in flux. The better wines from …
