Serafino Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, McLaren Vale, Australia
Big and powerful bouquet with a core of dark red berries and bell-pepper, it’s herbaceous and direct, plenty of oak and barrel spices of clove abd baked vanilla, sweet smoke and iron filings. A light yet distinctive minty quality (some might say eucalypt) suggest some classic location attributes. Dry and full-bodied as the wine touches the palate with flavours of blackberry and poached plums, black currant and baking spices. The oak statement is not quite as strong as the pyrazines and dried herb, bell-pepper flavours yet together deliver a wine of back bone and power. Plenty of tannins and acidity, again not over delivered.. Well made with a decent length and concentration with best drinking from 2025 through 2034+.
92 Points
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