Yalumba The Caley Cabernet Shiraz 2018 Bordeaux The palate is full-bodied yet

The palate is full-bodied yet very tight and reserved

"Reminding me slightly of the 1998

freshly sharpened pencils

with emerging wafts of iron ore and unsmoked cigars

with only one other vintage receiving it

Yalumba The Caley Cabernet Shiraz 2018 Bordeaux The palate is full-bodied yet"With six vintages on the ground, this wine has comprehensively shown that it is a new Australian icon. All are wonderful wines, and we can argue about their relative strengths and which are the best vintages, but theres no doubt the 2018 is among the best, arguably THE best The wine is normally about 70 30 cabernet to shiraz, the 2013 being an outlier with 55 45. It is always matured in Yalumba coopered barrels of French oak, mostly 225 litre