2019 Budworth Cabernet Sauvignon
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Winemaker Larry Cherubino. Northern aspect, 1,300–1,600 vines per hectare, own clones, dry and irrigated. Lateritic, gravel and sandy loam soils derived from granite. Planted 1996–1998. Low rainfall in winter and spring with some devastating frost events made the summer ripening season late. A tricky harvest, picked March 2019. The fruit was hand-harvested and transported to the winery where it was cooled overnight and hand-sorted. Maceration lasted for six weeks with minimal pump-overs and temperatures ranging from 12 to 27 °C. The wine was pressed to tank and allowed to settle for 7 days prior to maturation. Dark shaded crimson. Rather toasty. Very round and pleasing. Already complete and satisfying. (JR)
Critic scores
Average Score
Jancis Robinson MW
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
More reviews and scores
The 2019 Budworth Cabernet Sauvignon hails from a considerably cooler year than its inception vintage, 2018. The fruit, as a result, is finer and darker than the powerful wine from the 2018 vintage. Here, the fruit expresses with salted licorice, dark chocolate, graphite, tobacco, blackberry, cassis, bay leaf, iodine and red dirt. In the mouth, the Frankland River fruit dutifully fills the middle palate with intense flavor, while the tannins that shape it are pliable and ductile. This is a lovely wine, altogether different from the first vintage and wonderful for it. The oak is present, make no mistake, but it sits very well in the mouth. Impressive wine. Long. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.