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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a very good vintage in Margaret River, sometimes overlooked because of the one that followed. Still, this is a terrific example of a powerful cabernet that delivers with poise and panache. Deep and opulent fruit intensity is evident on the nose and palate. It's structured, with a fine tannin–oak combination that supports the fruit seamlessly. An excellent, high-quality...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A bold and opulent statement of cabernet from Margaret River in this warmer season. A burst of black fruits with dark plum, some dark chocolate and a subtle, cutting oyster-shell minerality combine on the nose. The palate is plush but firmly structured, as you would expect with cabernet, with those firmish tannins and well-managed oak playing pivotal roles. Lots of...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is an exquisite and poised example of Frankland River cabernet sauvignon. It comes off the specific Block 6 on the Riversdale property, which consistently produces outstanding fruit. The nose displays a lovely red and black fruit combination, while the palate presents with a slightly lighter body, although still concentrated and immensely powerful, delivering an effortless, elegant, and refined finish....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a most impressive cabernet from this outstanding season. All the fruit comes from a mix of young and old vines from the Fishbone vineyard in Wilyabrup. The season allowed for an extended, almost lazy ripening period that allowed so much flavour to build, but with impeccable balance. Aromas of tobacco leaf, bay leaf, blackcurrant and even a little...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The varietal purity of this Frankland River cabernet is immediately evident on the nose, displaying blackcurrant and lifted blackberry notes over a red fruit underlay. The palate offers a mix of red and black fruits, with hints of chocolate and dark plum. Seamlessly integrated with fine, slightly chalky tannins and neatly applied oak, it’s elegant and poised—but deceptively powerful as...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a highly structured and purposeful cabernet that comes from vines planted more than 40 years ago. Fermentation took place in small batches and it was aged in oak for about 12 months. While it's largely cabernet, smaller components of petit verdot, cabernet franc and merlot have added to the aromatics and to the palate completeness. Fruit is bright...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The '21 vintage was quite cool, but the interesting thing is, the longer these wines have been held back in bottle, the better they present. And here is a classic case. It's really starting to tick into the ideal drinking phase, and yet it's hardly showing the development you might expect. Dominant cabernet, with petit verdot, cabernet franc and merlot...

Cabernet Blend

This is a combination of 91% cabernet sauvignon and 9% cabernet franc from the Napa Valley and South Australia. It’s a wine of generosity and volume with abundant ripe fruit on the nose immediately assailing. An engaging weave of black fruits open with lifted pepper and savoury dried herbs emerging. The palate shows plenty of black fruits, dark chocolate and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A most stylish blend of 87% cabernet with 11% merlot and a smidgeon of perfumed cabernet franc. It’s a delightfully fragrant and pure medium-bodied blend with the compelling characters of blackcurrant and cedary plum on the nose cascading into a smooth and seamlessly structured palate. The firm chalky tannins and nice touch of oak harness the intense fruit. Like all...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A mighty challenge to follow the stellar 2022 and 2023 releases under this label, yet this comes remarkably close. It ticks every box for quality cabernet sauvignon. As has become the house style, there's wonderful elegance, poise and structure. Black currant, bay leaf, black olive and subtle oyster shell minerality create a compelling and complex aromatic opening. The sleek palate...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the partner to the outstanding Reserve Shiraz, and it's captured all that you would expect from these old vines in a marvellous season. The aromas of violets, red currant, and even a little cranberry work within the darker blackcurrant and slightly cedary characters. The palate is still tightly wound with a fine core of oak and fruit held...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

I have to say this is one of the best and most complete of this wine I have tasted. Combines the power and structure of cabernet and delivers it with poise and polish. Lifted leafy minerally aromas with traces of blackcurrant and tobacco. The palate is medium bodied with fine chalky tannins and neatly weighted oak in support. Makes quite...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The pure varietal character of cabernet sauvignon is immediately apparent. Powerful blackcurrant, black olive and bay leaf notes classically define Margaret River, with ripe plum adding further complexity. The palate displays remarkable elegance for this warm year, with fine balance, blackcurrant and blackberry flavours and a subtle oyster-shell-like minerality. The oak and tannin are well balanced and seamlessly integrated. An...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The source of the fruit for this excellent cabernet is the vineyards in Wilyabrup in this very good cabernet year. An opening salvo of blackcurrant and dark chocolate, and plummy nuances announces this as Margaret River cabernet. It’s generous and intense, but more towards elegance and medium-bodied. Seamlessly integrated, with the use of 30% French oak adding a little palate...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A glorious example of Frankland cabernet. The varietal notes of blackcurrant and a little black olive are beautifully infiltrated by that regional ironstone character. The palate is a powerhouse with a firm core of new and one-year-old oak working with the firm chalky tannins to carry effortlessly through to a sustained finish. Still quite tight at the moment but extended...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a cabernet that typifies a style from Frankland River. It's a blend of the best barrels of cabernet from the season. The aroma has an interesting combination of blackcurrant with some slight blue fruit notes. The palate is medium to full-bodied, but with real varietal intensity. There's a touch of dried herbs and bay leaf. An oyster shell, graphite...

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...

Mount Barker

Cabernet Sauvignon

Beautifully structured and powerful wine from this very early and short vintage. Perfumed blackcurrant and chalk dust over ripe dark plum. It’s an elegant wine of great structure and refinement. Strikes a great balance of fruit, oak and tannin, contributing to a precise and elegant palate feel. Aromatics are quite beautiful. This is cabernet of great style. Love the smooth...

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....

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a wine that expresses so much about the Riversdale Vineyard and Frankland River. Loads of blackcurrant fruit, ironstone, liqueur cherry and dark chocolate provide a compelling aromatic beginning, then the palate reveals power, concentration and balance. The astute, restrained use of oak allows the fruit quality to shine. That touch of savoury ironstone, almost rusty nail, on the palate...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

These cabernets from Grace Farm all show wonderful refinement and polish, with the fruit deeply intense but generally presented with a medium to full body and creating an elegant expression of cabernet. This one's now had 6 years in bottle, and it's come together as you would expect quite beautifully. The nose shows those primary blackcurrant characters, some nice florals,...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firmish Great Southern cabernet displaying structure and poise. The aromas are a mix of blackcurrant, plum and cherry with a lightly toasted overlay of oak. The palate, which opens up with breathing displays more vibrant dark fruit characters a slightly ironstone minerality complementing. Make sure you decant this one to bring out those attractive fruit characters.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is really such a lovely expression of cabernet sourced from Margaret River. It's a blend of largely cabernet with other Bordeaux varieties. On the nose, you're struck with an immediate hit of blackcurrant and plum, just a little liqueur cherry nuanced into it. The palate is bright and vibrant with more of that blackcurrant with a little red berry...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A most elegant and stylish cabernet sourced from down at Karridale. Lovely red-fruited aromatics with some fragrant violet perfumes. The palate is medium-weight and totally seamless, but there’s intensity here and good fruit concentration, supported by a nice tannin and oak combination. Stacks of red berry character, a dollop of chocolate and just a fine minerality. A most complete wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

From the sleeper vintage comes this very good example of the season. Starting to knit together rather well. Lift of leafy black currant and minerally graphite on the nose with dark black olive nuances. Neatly integrated oak and tannin add structure to the fruit. Effortlessly long.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is such a beautifully expressive cabernet. Blackcurrant and leafy notes on the nose, touches of bay leaf and black olive. And then a palate that is so elegant and refined, reflecting the cooler climes of Frankland, but still with excellent structure, with fine, slightly sinewy tannins and some excellent oak integration. It all supports some vibrant red fruits on...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A most refined and stylish cabernet from this very good vintage. There is a purity of expression here that partly conceals the deep and intense palate concentration. Leafy aromas with a trace of minerally oyster shell and ironstone. The palate is more in the medium bodied area with fine chalky tannins and fine-grained oak lacing it together into a distinctly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

As you might expect from this cooler vintage in Margaret River, this is an elegant and refined example of cabernet sauvignon, but don't let its structure and body fool you, because there is plenty of fruit concentration and power here as it is Margaret River cabernet. Blackcurrant, dark chocolate, and gentle black olive influences. There is a trace of oyster...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

There’s plenty of power and drive in this excellent cabernet. 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 tight core....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The colour is so bright and brilliant. Thoroughly beautiful fragrances of plum and violet with a cherry, black olive and leafy nuance that is tremendously intriguing. The palate is quite firm with a thread of chalky tannins and balanced oak working with the fruit, which at the moment is quite shy. Has the structure and deep intensity to handle cellaring.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

You’re getting some serious cabernet character in this polished wine from what was a very good vintage. Intense blackcurrant and dark plum on the nose with some subtle minerally edges. The palate is so beautifully integrated with the oak deftly supporting the concentrated and powerful fruit. The is a cabernet that could easily sell for a higher price.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A sumptuous and powerful cabernet, sourced from some of the older plantings on the vineyard. The warmer season has delivered concentrated fruit intensity, evident on both the nose and palate. Minerally black fruits with dark chocolate richness are supported by fine yet firm tannins and well-judged oak. A distinct oyster-shell minerality adds varietal character. Stylish and expressive.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A thoroughly beautiful and refined cabernet sauvignon from this excellent vintage. There's a small amount of bright malbec in there bringing a juicy red fruit impact to the middle palate. IT's one of the more elegant and stylish cabernets from Victory Point displaying impeccable balance of fruit oak and tannin. Bright blackcurrant fruit on the nose with a leafy oyster...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Consistently one of the best value cabernets from WA. Designed to show its best young, with brightness and energy immediately apparent. A blend of cabernet with a small amount of malbec, an important variety at Vasse Felix. Smooth and seamlessly structured with a sublimely elegant palate. Medium-bodied with fine-boned structure, subtle oak, and fine tannins. The best yet.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Consistently one of the best cabernets from WA. It’s designed to express its best qualities as a young wine, with its brightness and energy immediately apparent. It’s a blend of cabernet with a small amount of malbec, an important variety at Vasse Felix. Smooth and seamlessly structured with a sublimely elegant expressive palate. It’s medium-bodied with a fine boned structure....

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the pinnacle of Singlefile's red wine portfolio, and it comes from the famous Riversdale Vineyard in Frankland River. Okay, this was a cooler year, and yet the vineyard has certainly pumped out some classy fruit that has been captured in this quite tightly refined expression of cabernet. First things first—give it a decent splash and decant to open...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and graceful cabernet from this slightly cooler Margaret River vintage. It's from a 40-year-old dry grown vineyard which produces consistently excellent fruit. Lots of red fruits on the nose with a little bay leaf and graphite contributing to some minerally characteristics. The palate is so seductively smooth and finely integrated. Very long chalky tannins sustain an effortless focused...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is an excellent wine that is predominantly cabernet with tiny amounts of the aromatic cab franc, and the colour and tannins from the petit verdot. It's a deep, dark red colour. The nose is quite beautiful, with dominant blackcurrant, bay leaf, and olive tapenade, with a nice lift of oyster shell minerality. The palate is quite sublime, with deep,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This deceptively good vintage produced wines of elegance and style and this is a good example of what came from it. The leafy minerally notes of cabernet are well to the fore. Bright red fruit emerges from an engaging bouquet that sets it up nicely. There's a slightly meaty blackcurrant influence which speaks cabernet. Perfectly balanced with everything coming together...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It's 88% cabernet, but smaller contributions come from petit verdot, cabernet franc and merlot, each of which plays an important part in the overall textural and aromatic completeness of the wine. Perfumed notes of leafy blackcurrant, a little red berry and just a trace of black olive. The palate is elegantly poised and defined, with nice red-fruit characters supported by...