Plantagenet Aquitaine Mount Barker Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
£24.25
The wine
Deep ruby, opening on intense blackberry, cassis and olive with subtle nuances behind.
Cabernet in the Great Southern keeps a leafy, savoury edge that warmer Australian regions lose, which is why the area is increasingly mentioned alongside Margaret River. The Great Southern in Western Australia is the largest wine region in the country by area and one of the most remote, which keeps volumes low and growing costs high. What it gives back is a long, slow ripening season and wines of unusual definition. Mount Barker is its inland heart, cooler and more continental than the coast at Albany.
The producer
Plantagenet
View all Plantagenet winesPlantagenet is the pioneering estate of Mount Barker, the founding winery of Western Australia acclaimed Great Southern region. Established in 1968, it has spent over half a century proving the area extraordinary potential for elegant, cool-climate wines.
The Great Southern climate, cool, maritime and long-seasoned, yields wines of freshness, structure and perfume. Plantagenet draws on mature vineyards and careful, restrained winemaking to capture the region distinctive character.
The range celebrates the area strengths, from taut, racy Mount Barker Riesling to peppery, structured Shiraz and classically styled Cabernet Sauvignon, each named for a historic house of Plantagenet.
Refined, age-worthy and true to their cool-climate origins, Plantagenet wines remain a benchmark for the Great Southern and a cornerstone of fine Western Australian wine.
