Pillar Box Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
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This shows much more refined tannins than the 2009 vintage of this wine. Lively cassis fruit is cushioned by toasty, cedary oak and vanilla shadings, while the overall feel is lush and velvety, particularly on the long, supple finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2010 Pillar Box Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon reveals pronounced aromas of warm cassis and blackberry compote plus underlying black cherries, bay leaf and toasty hints. Medium to full-bodied, it has a great core of ripe, muscular black berry fruit supported by a medium level of grainy tannins, quite fresh acidity and finishing long and earthy / minerally. Delicious now, it should cellar gracefully to 2018+. 90+ points
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2012-
Wilfred
Wong
During the nineteenth century establishment of the farming and wine industries of Southeastern Australia, horse-drawn coaches provided the only transportation of mail and passengers. The coach drivers reigned supreme on top of their coaches, and won the respect and admiration of their passengers. The coach service proprietor in this part of the state, was a certain Mr. Henry John Hill. His operation drove directly through a property owned more recently by three generations of the Longbottom family of Padthaway. Routes were known as Drives, thus the family's wine business is today known as Henry's Drive.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
