Forester Estate Yelverton Reserve cabernet 2023

You're moving into rarefied air with this cabernet from the outstanding '23 vintage. Around 91% cabernet but there's about 7.5% cab franc and a little petit verdot, and I think that cab franc's just introduced that slightly lifted perfumed note. The aroma captures so much of Margaret River cabernet with its blackcurrant, bay leaf, and black olive notes, a little fruitcake and dark chocolate, and a lift of graphite minerality. The palate is tightly woven still, and deeply concentrated with tremendous power and depth. The balance is impeccable. It's seamless and it's structured and it will extend and live for a long time in the cellar.