Dandelion Vineyards

Lion's Roar Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Colour: Black, dark-purple intensity. Nose : Eucalypt and vineyard track dust aromatics leap up before the more rounded, judicious French Oak bouquet brings a neat balance. Hints of black olives, spice, bay leaf, soy, musk and pastrami make for an exotic, enticing mix. Palate: Big, round, furry tannins envelop multitudinous clusters of liquorice and ripe blackberry, the plush fruits balancing the necessitous tannic gruffness. There is an intensity and a coolness to the black fruit flavours and textures which, along with background acidity, keeps the wine in parade-ground order - an attitude which cabernet both needs and likes. This is a big mouthful of red wine, yet it finishes very dry and lingeringly, never losing its cabernet definition. Friendly, satisfying yet upright and mannered.