2016 Freycinet Vineyard Cabernet Merlot

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 90 points

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  1/3/2023 - Neddy9 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I tasted this earlier this year at the vineyard and thought it be excellent, so bought another bottle to bring home. Barring a few exceptions, Tasmanian Cabernet has not been a general success to date, except for small warm pockets like at Freycinet on the east coast and Domaine A in the Coal Valley. This is a very fine wine - appealing ripe Cabernet aroma, with subtle cedary French oak on the nose, beautifully weighted and intensely flavoured mid palate (plums, cassis, black olive), with a long lasting finish, where prominent yet soft tannins speak to the wine's relative youth. A nicely balanced wine, I would not hesitate to cellar more for at least another 5+ years and would expect to be well rewarded. Screw cap 14%

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  8/12/2022 - StewartWent wrote: 90 Points

  When conditions permit Tassie Cabernet can be a wonderful thing. Supreme balance. presence where its needed. not powerful but not meek. Fine grained tannin and sensible berry fruit. Really good.

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  3/20/2021 - marcellonegro wrote: 85 Points

  Med purple turning garnet
  Gravel mineral and black fruit on nose
  Gripping tannins

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