Gordon Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Kayak

The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like lemon and blackberry. It tastes like black pepper, clove and petrol. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has high acidity.

Jeff liked it

It was very sharp on the finish, rough overall.

Not great. Second bottle better than the first. Despite the low price, hoping to find a value for a table wine option, just not good enough to justify $12-$14, which if course says a lot. We will cook or make mulled wine and sangria with these mostly.

$15- was recommended to me as a real-deal, killer QPR Cab Sauv. I can definitely sense the "realness" of it, not noticeably manipulated or jammy, but not super good either. Barely anything on the nose. There was a really nice little oak tone I actually really liked- cedary, but faint, and unfortunately left no room for the fruit. There was something approaching a weirdly high-toned raspberry thing, neither deep, expressive, or well-integrated. Palate was also strangely high-toned for a Cab …