Let's start 2023 with a bang! In the words of the great Bruce McAvaney, this Nightfall Draco Cabernet is "something special". I sat with this for some time and returned to it on a second and third day. Just wow! Layers of interest kept peeling off with absolute ease. This is a class act all the way.
Sure, you can suggest the price point calls for high scores but that isn't always necessarily the case. The quality of this Cabernet speaks for itself, clearly the flagship of the Nightfall range.
With a mouthfeel that is quite extraordinary, this is a wine that just keeps raising the bar. Think licorice bullets, roasted peppers, choc mint and peppermint sage - an opening with plenty to digest. It moves to black tea and Dutch cocoa tannins that are drying and long. That scent of mintiness just seems endless and threads its way throughout. Seeing time in French oak for 24 months (50% new), vanilla and cedar rise up. The layers build with ease and absorb your attention as it continues to develop wonderfully over a few days. The hero is undoubtedly the blackcurrant fruit showing generous depth but without being heavy-handed. Long, moreish, it's just a brilliant Cabernet!
Drink to ten years+
96/100
Region: CoonawarraSource: Sample
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