Winemaker Notes
Dark and intense. The wine opens with fresh violets on the nose. Take a sip and immediately find savory notes, licorice, fresh tomato leaves, and mouthcoating black currant. Hints of white and black pepper towards the back palate. This is a nice, soft and rounded expression of this wine. Firm and velvety tannins envelope the mouth, with a long, lingering finish. Exceptional Cabernet. This will age beautifully.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This sees a little merlot and petit verdot (a little over 10% in total). There’s a rich array of blueberries and violets here, together with some darker, stony, slate-like notes. Blackberries and blackcurrants, too. The palate has such intensity and ripe, juicy red, blue and dark-toned fruit flavors. Generous red with plenty of structural depth and weight.
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.
Known for opulent red wines with intense power and concentration, McLaren Vale is home to perhaps the most “classic” style of Australian Shiraz. Vinified on its own or in Rhône Blends, these hot-climate wines are deeply colored and high in extract with signature hints of dark chocolate and licorice. Cabernet Sauvignon is also produced in a similar style.
Whites, often made from Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc tend to be opulent and full of tropical, stone and citrus fruit.