Yalumba The Menzies Cabernet Sauvignon

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country of Origin:

Region: Coonawara , SA

Vintage: 2018

Award:

95 Points

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.

2024 Halliday Wine Companion, 06 Jul 2023

94 Points

I’ve looked at this wine from a couple of bottles and have sat on the glass that I have in front of me for quite some time. Some wines take me a while to really see. 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.

The Wine Front, 25 May 2023