Winemaker Notes
Dense, dark red with youthful purple hues. Perfumed blackberry, sweet cassis and licorice with hints of vanilla and oak spice. Medium-bodied, yet rich and smooth, with dark cherry, blackcurrant and plum flavors, balanced by hints of milk chocolate and soft, fine tannins.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A fresh and creamy cabernet with aromas of fresh plums, blackberries, mint, hazelnuts and licorice. It’s medium-bodied with ripe and soft tannins. Nice complexity of soft berry fruit with herbal and spicy hints.
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.
Nestled into the tip of its southeastern coastline, Victoria is Australia’s smallest mainland state, second most populous and third largest wine producer. Victoria includes the cool regions of Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong, made famous mainly by impressive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
The more inland Heathcote and Bendigo lead the way for complex and textured, full-bodied reds. Rutherglen’s fortified wines compete among the best on the planet.