Taylors

St Andrews Cabernet Sauvignon

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  Vintage 2017
  94 points The Real Review

Deep red colour with the faintest of purple tints in the rim. The bouquet is pepperminty, fresh and vibrant—but the mint dominates to the exclusion of almost anything else, although there's undoubted depth of fruit hiding beneath. In the mouth, it's intense and bright, dark-berry fruit flavours and fresh acidity driving it, oak happily tucked into the background, and the tannins supple and balanced, albeit abundant. Oak flavour and tannins are less evident than usual in this wine. A high-quality wine, and those who enjoy a lot of mint will inevitably rate it higher than those who don't.

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  Vintage 2017
  93 points Halliday Wine Companion

I like this. Clare does this unbridled mesh of old school after-dinner-mintiness, sapid blackcurrant, olive, bitter chocolate and sage notes, very well. Especially when in the right hands. As at this address. Highly dependable.