The only under-$20 Cabernet on Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100
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2019 Bec Hardy Pertaringa Lakeside Cabernet Sauvignon South Australia 750 ml
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Enthusiast: This Cab “Should Be a Weeknight Staple”
Out of thousands tasted, only FIVE Cabernet Sauvignons made Wine Enthusiast’s 2021 Enthusiast 100.
Only one comes in under $20.
The 2019 Bec Hardy Pertaringa Lakeside Cabernet Sauvignon, one of the greatest Cab bargains on the globe, came in at #53 in the rankings, this 92-pointer from a 170-year-old estate is intricate, elegant, and the absolute cream of the crop in its price category.
Bec Hardy established her own wine company in South Australia’s McLaren Vale in 2015. She’s a sixth-generation member of—and the first female winegrower from—the Hardy Family, the first family of South Australian wine. Her great-great-great grandfather, Thomas Hardy, started the region’s first winery in Adelaide in 1853, when he was only 23. That’s a lot of multigenerational know-how.
In the family tradition, Bec struck out on her own, taking over the ownership and management of the Pertaringa winery in McLaren Vale. Launched in 1980 by her dad Geoff Hardy, Pertaringa has long been known for delivering ironclad value, a tradition continued today by Bec and her husband Richard Dolan.
The fruit for this soft, quaffable Cabernet comes primarily from Langhorne Creek, near the shores of Lake Alexandrina—hence the “Lakeside” in the name. Producers such as Noon and Bleasdale have delivered quality bottlings from this fertile region, and Oz Clarke, author of Oz Clarke’s Australian Wine Companion, once wrote that wines from there “have a famously soft and mellow quality to them.”
Crafted with care by an iconic Australian wine family, this Cabernet is simply an incredible value, pound for pound, that Wine Enthusiast crows “should be a weeknight staple.”