Ashbrook Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

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Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

Ashbrook Estate’s cabernet sauvignon is clocking up nearly 50 years, and it’s at the heart of the Reserve, bolstered by decent glugs of petit verdot, cabernet franc and merlot. It’s a stately wine, rich, intensely flavoured and more savoury than fruit driven, although there are cassis and blackberry nuances. Dry spices, some raspberry leaf and mint, roasted tomatoes plus savoury, nutty and cedary oak. Fuller bodied, yet not too wieldy, there’s a plushness, even if the tannins are firm and plentiful. This has a lot of appeal, buoyed by fresh acidity.