Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon Scotsdale 2014

A wine to be admired and applauded. This is neat as a pin, long as a song, flavoured not laboured. It’s medium weight, taut, and sensationally persistent It’s curranty and earthen and fleshed with tobacco, but picking out the flavor isn’t of consequence here. It’s the soar, the flow, the finish.

A 100 per cent cabernet from the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It’s slinky and very sexy, drawing itself across the palate in a lazy manner but giving pleasure all the way.