Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Impressive weight and fleshy fruit cast into ripe and long tannins. This has depth and charm aplenty.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Ashmead has notes of crushed blackcurrants and black plums with suggestions of bay leaves, cigar boxes and cloves. Medium-bodied, the fruit fills the palate with juicy black berry and cassis flavors lifted by gentle herbal notes and well framed with grainy tannins plus plenty of freshness.
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Wine Spectator
Distinctive and herbal, showing rosemary and bay leaf notes that add a savory element to the core of plum and currant flavors, this is polished, with plenty of elegance and finesse on the finish. Drink now through 2028. 300 cases made.
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.
The Barossa Zone encompasses the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Some of the oldest vines in Australia can be found here.
Barossa Valley of course is the most important and famous wine growing region in all of Australia where 140+ year-old, dry-farmed Shiraz vines still produce inky, purple and dense juice for some of Australia's best wines.
In the cooler, wetter Eden Valley sub-region, the Hill of Grace vineyard is home to famous Shiraz vines from the 1800s but the region produces also some of Australia’s very best and age-worthy Rieslings.