From vines first planted in 1860 in the Southern Barossa Valley, the Linfield Road wines certainly have maturity of vines on their side!
The 2006 “The Black Hammer” Cabernet Sauvignon ($18-22 a bottle) is slightly dirty in the glass but has a herbaceous, cedary nose that invites immediate imbibement.
At first, the rich fruit titillates the taste buds, but the fruitcake flavours are immediately overwhelmed by a flood of hard leathery tannins that dominate the middle and suck your cheeks through your nostrils as the wine passes through the back palate.
It’s a little hot at 15.3% but with such firm tannins, it will certainly benefit from a few years laying on its side.
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