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Masterstroke Cabernet Shiraz 2018

Wakefield Taylors Family Wines, South Australia, Australia

Wakefield Taylors Family Wines
South Australia Australia
  • 91
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  • The 1 746 best
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  • 1 Pros of
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  • Country ranking ?

    260

  • Producer ranking ?

    19

  • Decanting time

    2h

  • When to drink

    2020-2035

  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

Food Pairing

Lamb

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Vintage 2018

AUSTRALIA: Very promising quality with the most optimistic reviewers declaring 2018 great in every region and for every variety. The more cautious view is that early frosts reduced yields, but that consistent good weather throughout the second half of the growing season actually resulted in great potential.

Barossa 2018 vintage to savor

The 2018 Barossa vintage was completed at the end of April 2018, with growers and winemakers satisfied...

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ven in a modern era of increasingly sceptical shoppers, gold medals and trophies on wine bottles sell products (although not always, as this paper examines). Today’s wine-on-the-desk is festooned in ’em too, with the Taylors Masterstroke Cabernet Shiraz 2018 adorned in shiny wine show awards from all over the planet. Yet, for all that silverware, this is a bit of a line in the sand wine. On the one hand, it’s not short on impact. Even now, at seven years old, it’s still very youthful, with just a little brick dust to show for the bottle age, and no sign of the palate falling over. However, it’s also every bit a show-friendly caricature wine, with most of the flavour delivered in a coffeed, caramel oak-driven, firm and slightly alcoholic punch. Reserved and approachable its not, to the point when this could be from a different era (like the new oak friendly world of 2008) than 2025. Yet every time I try wines like this I have to remind myself that it’s a style that is still hugely popular – while I might get distracted by oak tannins, shedloads of people will love that richness and palate weight, and Taylors happily cultivates drinkers after such a mode. What’s even more interesting is that, if you dig deeper, there’s a savoury, not OTT, slightly minty Clare Cab blend shell sitting underneath it all, even if it comes cloaked in a whole lot of artifice and excess Impact. Ultimately, it’s a wine that I couldn’t drink, but I admire it because of its place in the world (with a silver medal). Would you drink it?

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Origin

Clare Valley, South Australia

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