Cabernet Sauvignon

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and polish cabernet from this southern part of Margaret River. The perfumed notes of blackcurrant, blue fruits and light cedar merging with a rich dark chocolate are engaging. The palate is firm with assertive fine tannins and supporting oak. Has a grainy, slightly chalky ironstone finish that appeals.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Lovey medium bodied and highly fragrant cabernet from this generous vintage. Tea roams immediately assail with blackcurrant over bright liqueur cherry and some nice plummy blackberry. Stylish and elegantly structured palate delivering with medium body to a long finish. Totally seamless plate. Excellent.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A powerful and intense cabernet sourced from original dry-grown vines that are now more than 50 years old. Concentrated notes of leafy blackcurrant and a chocolate and bay leaf addition. Seamlessly and smoothly textured palate with a minerally seashell thread revealing a touch of graphite. This is a mighty good wine for the price. So bright and alive.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is high class cabernet from a very good year. There’s real power here, but then there is an effortless stylishness that makes it so much better. Leafy blackcurrant, black olive and graphite with a little cedar on the nose. The palate is bright with great energy. Concentrated deep fruit flavours merge seamlessly with the firm chalky tannins and ample,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Smooth, seamless, elegant, refined. You get the picture. A cabernet of such poise and polish, yet one with great power from this generous powerful vintage in Margaret River. Opens with a salvo of blackcurrant, dark chocolate and black olive fanned with a bay leaf and oyster shell minerality. The palate delivers with some presence, yet it does so with restraint...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This 100% cabernet comes off the Scholar Vineyard, which each year produces some of the best cabernets from Wilyabrup. There is power and elegance here, features which seem synonymous with the vineyard. Power-packed blackcurrant, bay leaf and dark chocolate with a delightful floral violet lift. Seamlessly structured palate with fine linear tannins and ample oak. A wine of great polish...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This ripping cabernet comes from Capel Vale’s Scholar Vineyard in Wilyabrup. This is a mighty good wine, certainly when you consider the price. The colour is dark and almost opaque. Aromas of intense blackcurrant, dark chocolate and subtle graphite intertwine. Then the palate delivers with a bang. Power plus here with deep dark fruits merging with plenty of necessary oak...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firm and still quite tight cabernet, which has the breeding and essential pieces to handle extended cellaring. A graphite seashell minerality tends to dominate with a bay leaf addition on the nose. Not excessive, but at the moment it provides the delightful aromatics. The palate is still tightly wound with a firm core of oak and tannin clutching feverishly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A pure varietal expression of Margaret River cabernet. Loads of blackcurrant and dark chocolate on the nose with traces of light graphite and bay leaf. There’s power here and there’s a degree of elegance. Medium to full bodied wine of concentration and persistence. Classy wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Always a crowd pleaser, is this cabernet. In year of deep fruit concentration, it’s easily coped with the 45% new French oak over 18 months. A powerful and assertive wine of tremendous presence. Perfumed violet floats over darker blackcurrant notes while a thick coating of dark chocolate adds further engagement. It’s dense and concentrated through with a rich middle palate...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This super cabernet is sourced from some of the oldest vines in the region. The power and intensity of those vines in a season that produced fruit of great concentration and intensity is evident immediately. Notes of bay leaf and graphite with deep blackcurrant and black olive nuances on the nose. Strikes a wonderful balance with the fruit displaying deep...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A polished and powerful cabernet from a vintage that produced wines of tremendous intensity and concentration. The key was harnessing all the power into a refined and elegantly structured presentation. This has deep blackcurrant and black olive with a little graphite edginess. The addition of a small amount of the aromatic cabernet franc impacts on the nose especially. It’s a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a year that produced beautifully elegant wines of slightly less body, but no less flavour. Loads of leafy blackcurrant aromas with a liberal dose of dark chocolate and edgier black olive. A faint hint of brick dust adds a further level of complexity. The palate is seamlessly woven, with fine sinewy tannins, oak and fruit all laced together....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Another of the wines Conti sources from his Margaret River vineyard. This is a firmish wine, reflecting this warm vintage, but its balanced with excellent depth of fruit. Shows a beautiful varietal integrity with blackcurrant and black olive nuances plus a trace of bay leaf. A small amount of malbec is added to bring more weight to that middle palate....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is so, so elegant and stylish. It’s been sourced from the Wilyabrup region, from which it draws its power and opulence. A combination of wonderful fruit and oak has contributed to a fragrant perfume of violets, blackberry and chocolate. The palate brings together fine ripe tannins and fine-grained oak to support an intense wave of dark fruit flavours. Has...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A thoroughly beautiful expression of Margaret River cabernet. Perfumed with seductive notes of violet floating above blackberry and a decent dollop of dark chocolate. The palate reveals a rich texture with a firmish core of fine tannin and well-managed oak sliding through it. A subtle minerally character slices to the long finish. A powerful wine of poise and polish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that can trace its DNA back to the very first cabernet vines that came into WA in the 19th century. A pretty and most beautiful medium bodied cabernet from a vintage that produced excellent fruit intensity. Perfumed red fruit on the nose with subtle cedar and minerally oyster shell. The palate is sublimely integrated with super fine though...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegantly crafted cabernet from this cooler vintage. On the nose aromas of bay leaf, blackcurrant and a seashell minerality reveal. The palate is medium to full bodied with excellent structure based on fine sinewy chalky tannins and fine-grained oak. Has a precise focus extending through to a long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was made when we had that little matter of Covid. It was a very short and quick warmish vintage in Margaret River, and the fruit was excellent. This is bright and vibrant from the start. Aromas of plummy, minerally blackcurrant with a lifted bay leaf and black olive nuance. The palate is more medium bodied with a fine thread...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

There is real class and polish here. It’s such an elegantly refined expression of Margaret River. Effortless is a word that comes to mind when describing the power yet stylishness of the palate. Dark fruits on the nose with a blackcurrant and ripe plum character merging with a mass of dark chocolate and edgy balancing black olive. A trace of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

There’s plenty of power and drive in this excellent cabernet based wine. Sourced from Margaret River and fermented in open fermenters with basket pressing to French oak for 16 months. Intense blackcurrant aromas announce this as cabernet with a little leafy and black olive infusion. The palate is neatly integrated with a firm thread of tannin and oak creating a...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of he most elegant of any Jack Mann release, being a product of this cooler vintage in Frankland River. Comes from the famous Justin vineyard in Frankland. Aromas of blackcurrant and light cedar with other notes of leaf and violet. Lovely medium to full bodied fruit on the palate with fine silky tannins and an ample hit of supporting...

Geographe

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stylish and most elegantly refined cabernet with a distinctive varietal expression of blackcurrant and leafy plum with a little olive tapenade. The palate is vibrant and bursting with high energy fruit with that blackcurrant character evident, plus a light leafy red berry lift. A thread of chalky tannin and a sliver of fine-grained oak add their considerable support,

South Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the most individual of all Australian cabernets in that it is matured in 100% new American oak. It’s a blend of Coonawarra, Barossa, Padthaway and McLaren Vale. This is one of the best with the oak influence less profound than some previously. Loads of dark fruits merging seamlessly with cedar and black olive, with a slightly meaty gamey...

South Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is pure essence of Coonawarra cabernet. Perfume notes of leaf and red fruits with lifted raspberry and other red fruits. On the nose traces of bay leaf, black olive tapenade and graphite emerge. On the palate red fruits with lifted black fruits and mulberry leaf reveal further nuances. A powerful yet elegantly structured with of great poise and style....

South Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is another multi-regional blend from vineyards in Coonawarra, Padthaway, Wrattonbully, McLaren Vale and the Barossa. This marks the continuing more to the cooler southern regions, especially in a year like 2022 which was superb down there. Aromas of floral, sage and dried herbs on the nose. The palate shows delicious, sweet ripe fruit with flavours of iron filings. I...

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is cabernet from the Napa Valley. It’s a brooding monster, powerfully framed and structured yet poised and polished at the same time. The aromas are more in the dried herb and sage like zone, with traces of meat and charcuterie evident. The palate is still tightly wound with a lifted red fruit and cherry cola characters. Dry and savoury...

Cabernet Sauvignon

Okay, now we know what Penfolds were doing in China. This is a cabernet sauvignon and marselan combination from Shangri-la and Ningxia. Marselan is widely grown in China and is a combination of cabernet and grenache. In this year, the percentage of marselan increased and the amount of new oak decreased. It’s a medium weight and neatly balanced wine. The...

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a French and Australian combination with fruit from Bordeaux and Coonawarra. The French component gets 12 months in oak and the Australian 18 months. The total new oak contribution is 84%. Aromas of leaf and blackcurrant with traces of minerals and ironstone. A little graphite edges in, balancing the primary bright red fruits of raspberry. Palate has a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that brings the biodynamic vineyard and winemaking commitment at Cullen into a remarkable expression of pure Margaret River cabernet sauvignon. These vines are now more than 50 years old and are contributing to wines that are bright and high fidelity. After fermentation in 300l terracotta amphorae the wine gets a further 7 months new oak maturation. Bright aromas...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It was a cooler vintage, but some areas fared very well such as in Frankland River. This is a really stylish and elegantly presented cabernet that brings together the minerally ironstone regionality with the varietal blackcurrant sprinkled with a little spice to lift. The tannin and oak combination is working well, as it controls the palate through to the long...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An excellent cabernet which comes from the oldest vines on the property. This is a firm and still tightly framed cabernet, but the warmth and depth of fruit is excellent, revealing great power and poise. Bay leaf and subtle black olive merge with intense blackcurrant and a slight oyster shell minerality. Structured and firm through the palate but the tannins...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A hot early vintage which finished well, produced excellent wines of colour, fruit intensity and power without excessive tannins. This is right on the money. Loaded with blackcurrant and plummy characters presented with vibrancy and brightness. Balanced use of oak complements the fine chalky tannins. Excellent medium-term wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A high-class cabernet that comes from the old vines of Deep Woods Estate and Abbey Vale. Delightful florals on the nose merge with dark blackcurrant and lifted bay leaf and subtle olive tapenade nuances. The palate is a domain of control and poise with fine chalky tannins and ample well-weighted use of new and seasoned French oak. I love that...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Perfumed notes of red fruit engage immediately on the nose. There are scents of rose petal and bay leaf with a little graphite complexity. The palate is firm although there is sweet fruit to balance. Has a distinctive leafy overtone with traces of herbs and cedar. It’s a wine that needs some time to emerge from its shell. An elegant...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The vintage has contributed to a stylish and elegantly structured cabernet. It has just 2% each of merlot and petit verdot. Perfumed note of blackcurrant and sage-like dark fruits combine with intrigue on the nose. The palate is still quite firm with controlling fine chalky tannins and fine-grained oak working in perfect harmony. As it breathes sweet dark fruits emerge...

Perth Hills

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and stylish medium bodied cabernet. Perfumed exotic fragrances open with red berry notes of cherry and red currant, plus a little minerally seashell character. The palate is worked with fine chalky tannins and a tidy infusion of oak. Excellent value.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A really impressive cabernet from the heart of Margaret River. It’s balanced and poised with great fruit intensity. Comes from a number of different sites within the Leston vineyard and has a slightly aromatic ironstone and blue fruit character with a touch of graphite. The perfumes are quite engaging with notes of violet and bay leaf emerging. One of the...

Mount Barker

Cabernet Sauvignon

Deep dark secrets are lurking in this polished and impressive cabernet. It was a vintage of challenges after a good start. Some late rain came via the end of a cyclone but those with courage to hold on were rewarded as the warm weather returned. Dark chocolate blackcurrant and black olive all find their way into a complex aromatic mix....

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

The cabernet from this very early vintage had plenty of punch and it’s been captured beautifully in this generous medium weight wine from the Great Southern. Ripe blackcurrant and tobacco leaf aromas with lifted bright cherry and red currant notes. Neatly integrated palate with supple tannins and fine-grained oak. Traces of coffee grinds and dark chocolate with even a hint...