Driftwood Estate Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River, Australia

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The 2020 Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon is excellent. It is muscular and lean in its refined way but resplendent with saturated raspberry fruit and exotic spice. It's a svelte wine with an abundance of tannin and structure. Very good! 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

The 2019 Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon is detailed and aromatic, perfumed and precise, in accordance with the 2019 vintage. On the whole, it produced lovely wines in the region; it was a cooler season than the hot 2020 that followed it, and with more rainfall. Here, this 2019 is bottled in glass that is different from the other Single Site Cabernets—shorter—it would have been bottled sometime in 2020, so one wonders whether this was a glass casualty of the COVID-19 shipping/supply chain delays felt worldwide. Regardless, the wine is delicate and refined and speaks of spiced cassis, blackberry, plum, cocoa, dark chocolate and clove. Very pretty. Languid. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

The 2018 Single Site Cabernet Sauvignon is powerful and concentrated, a la the near-perfect growing conditions of the 2018 season. It was warm without major heat spikes or extended hot periods, sun without stress, with abundant marri blossoms to occupy the silvereyes and very little to no disease pressure. The wines from this year are special—it is evident in the glass. This has notes of spicy cassis, roasted beetroot, raspberry, licorice, star anise/clove, nutmeg, kelp, pomegranate molasses and blood plums. There is dark chocolate and cocoa, too. Matured for 18 months in French oak barriques, it will live an age. There is a lovely, ductile splay of tannin through the finish. This will continue to grow in stature and grace over time. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.