This 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon is an effortless vintage from Moss Wood, although slightly unusual with 7% Petit Verdot (higher than usual) and 3% Cabernet Franc (lower). It’s an old fashiooned claret style, reserved yet precise and focussed. It delivers blackcurrant, violets, red currant and old cedar aromas, French oak relaxed and assured with a mid-weight palate defined by its powerful core of impressive fruit. What I love most is the structure – very fine yet muscular tannins that are beautifully integrated and deliver a finish of extreme length. A classic in the making that is already drinking superbly, Petit Verdot structure adding additional tension that will see this star age extremely well.

April 2023