Winemaker Notes
The 2015 Voyager Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is a medium dark red color. Sweet black fruit aromas exude from the bottle, followed by graphite, mocha, and dusty oak. A vibrant sweet palate of black fruits with hints of cocoa and cedar. Complex, great length and balance, supple tannins.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A firm and silky red with gorgeous blackberry, chocolate and hazelnut character. Cedar, too. Full body, chewy tannins and a polished and persistent finish. Shows tenure and tension.
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Wine & Spirits
Bright red berries go sumptuous and wild in this sleek cabernet. It’s sweet up front, ripe and voluptuous with hints of star anise, then the wine’s structure comes up to manage all of that fruit and focus it in a clean, fresh flavor that lasts. This comes from two blocks, planted in 1978 and 1995 at the estate on Stevens Road. Accessible now, it’s a powerful cabernet for braised lamb shanks or other rich, meaty dishes.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is being released again in 2025, and the wine hails from an interesting season in Margaret River. Initially, the wines looked reserved and backward, and of all the vintages this century, it is one of the most confounding to my palate. Having said this, the wines have started to open up in the last year or two, and I believe they are entering into their first drinking window around about now. This is all dried leaves and crushed rocks, cocoa powder and forest floor, hints of peat and burning tobacco on the wind. The wine is ready to drink now, go forth. 14% alcohol.
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.
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.