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YALUMBA The Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 2018 Bottle
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YALUMBA The Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 2018 Bottle
About this wine
Yalumba The Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon takes its name from Sir Robert Menzies, former Australian Prime Minister and red wine enthusiast. It is matured in a combination of new French hogsheads and barriques, new Hungarian hogsheads, with the balance in one year and older American, French and Hungarian hogsheads and barriques for a period of 18 months.
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Expert Review
Campbell Mattinson
Another beautiful release. Mint, mulberry and blackcurrant flavours drift with tobacco and forest herbs. It's a cooling cabernet but a ripe one, fluid and refreshing but firm and solid. This wine needs to be stashed in a cool, dark place for at least a handful of years to start showing its best.
95 points, Wine Companion (January 2023)
There’s a strictness to this wine. I thought it was a bit awkward at first but I think that the tannin is just taking its time to properly roll out. The roads of Rome weren’t laid smooth, but boy did they last. This wine is medium in weight, it carries some floral perfumes, it has a creaminess to its texture but there’s some race to the acidity too; a friskiness; a cool refreshment to the power of the blackcurrant-driven fruit. Peppermint and cedar are in play here too, and tobacco, the latter with an earthen almost-dryness to it. Forest berries; deserved of a mention. Hold back on this; give it some time. I’ve come to see it as beautifully constructed.
94+ points, The Wine Front (May 2023)
Expert Review
Huon Hooke
Deep ruby with a hint of purple in the rim, the bouquet cedary, briary as well as and toasty and vanillan from liberal oak, with blackberry and cassis in the background but little sign of the greener spectrum of cabernet aromas. Intense and full-bodied, powerful and driving along the palate, which is firm and grippy, impressively powerful and persistent. A seriously structured cabernet that should age long and well. It's quite firm and either cellaring or a hearty protein dish are recommended.
95 points, The Real Review (August 2023)
Samuel Smith established Yalumba in 1849 and 165 years later descendant Robert Hill Smith now presides over Australia's oldest family owned wine company. Yalumba owns vineyards and sources fruit primarily in the Barossa and Coonawarra. Robert Hill-Smith manages to combine conservatism and tradition with up-to-date winemaking technology and thinking. Yalumba produces a considerable number of different wines across the price-point spectrum from a multitude of varieties, all with a focus on quality, varietal and regional expression. The strong winemaking team is headed up by Louisa Rose, a brilliantly intuitive winemaker whose white wines are some of the best in the country.
