Chapel Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

In my mind this is the archetypal McLaren Vale Cabernet. From a warm year that typically delivered ripeness and power, it’s a wine of substantial flavour, oak, tannins – everything. Hearty, full bodied, varietal, it’s a bit raw, and the tannins are brawny. But for all the breadth and flavour, this isn’t hard, it’s not overdone (or overripe). It’s just genuinely hearty, quintessentially Aussie red wine at a more than fair price.

Best drinking: Better next year, and will live for 15 years+. 18/20, 93/100. 14.5%, $30. Would I buy it? I’d share a bottle. With red meat.

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About me – Andrew Graham

At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.

While wearing my writer cap I write features for the likes of National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here.

Chapel Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2015