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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This classy Margaret River cabernet sauvignon perfectly captures the vintage. Aromas of blackcurrant, dark cherry liqueur, and flecks of red fruit emerge from the glass. The palate is seamlessly integrated, with strength and purpose, a tight core of oak and tannin perfectly aligned. A very stylish and elegant Margaret River cabernet.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the most impressive cabernet that shows wonderful varietal integrity from the start. The aromas are quite floral and perfumed, but with an underlay of black olive and slight leafy bay leaf, and dark chocolate. The palate certainly has a firmness about it, but that's cabernet with chalky tannins and nice oak treatment supporting the intense fruit mix of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firm and structured cabernet from Margaret River. The aromas have an engaging plummy cherry nuance, with more typical varietal blackcurrant and dark chocolate notes. The palate is deep, dark and structured, with firm tannins ensuring it has the capacity for further cellaring. The oak is neatly applied, and as the wine opens up, its elegance becomes more evident. Neatly...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An excellent vintage has pumped some mighty good fruit into this classically elegant and refined cabernet from this great vineyard in Frankland River. Red and black fruits on the nose with a slightly floral perfumed lift. The flavours are held with control thanks to the fine, firm tannin influence and fine-grained integrated oak. Has a beautiful chalky minerally palate feel.

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An interesting diversion from the usual WA cabernet clones in that it is from clones 377 and 191. On the nose there is a captivating mix of black fruits with a minerally ferruginous character merging into other nuances of tobacco leaf, red berry and oyster shell. The palate is very firm with substantial tannins holding it close through to the...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This COVID year produced some stunning wines from Margaret River, and this is certainly one of those. It’s probably the best Peccavi wine I’ve tasted over many years. There’s power and there’s drive here, and it’s evident from the first take on the nose. Deep chocolatey blackcurrant aromas, a little olive tapenade, and just that faint hint of lifted bay...

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a warm to hot vintage throughout Western Australia, but the slightly cooler Frankland River region has tempered the heat, resulting in wines of impressive quality. This is certainly a powerful and expressive cabernet from the season. The colour is deep red and the aromas show a distinct blackcurrant and plummy character with a lift of leafy, cherry-like notes....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and silky cabernet sauvignon from the season, with considerable power and fruit concentration driving the palate. Lifted leafy notes of bay leaf are complemented by a graphite-like character and black olive tapenade. The palate is powerful, with firm yet fine tannins and well-integrated oak supporting impressive depth of cabernet fruit. A wine that should benefit from extended cellaring.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A powerhouse cabernet of immense fruit concentration yet at the same time showing poise and effortless control. Blackcurrant, dark chocolate and a little graphite black olive characters emerge immediately on the nose. The palate is loaded with cabernet of great intensity with a chalky tannin and slightly graphite edge retaining control through to the long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The first cabernet release from Richard Rowe’s new venture, and it impresses. The fruit is sourced from Wilyabrup. Vibrant crimson colour with a nose of pure blackcurrant lifted by florals and violet. The palate is refined, elegant, and ethereal, yet carries the power of Margaret River cabernet. Already showing excellent fruit intensity and complexity, with a long future ahead. Love...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The fruit for this excellent wine comes from the heart of Margaret River in the sub-region of Wilyabrup. It captures what was a very good vintage for red wine in the region. That compelling opening of blackcurrant, black olive tapenade and a bay leaf lift speaks of place. The palate delivers with strength and purpose, the firm tannins and well-judged...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Consistently among the best-value cabernets released each year in Western Australia. This is largely cabernet with some malbec, which of course is the classic combination of the Tom Cullity blend. It's a wine that's evolved in recent years and now presents with less overt oak and more subtle integration. Blackcurrant and bright red fruits on the nose. And a thoroughly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Another exceptional cabernet from this small producer. Opens with those typical blackcurrant and minerally bay leaf aromas. The palate is in that medium to full-bodied zone and is so precise and elegantly structured. Has a tight core of chalky tannins and fine-grained oak controlling the exquisite fruit through to a very long finish. Vibrant and alive.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An impressive cabernet sauvignon from a season which produced wines of power and volume with a firm structure. This is all of that. The typical blackcurrant aromas are augmented with sweet plummy nuances. The palate is tightly framed with firm tannins and a decent oak influence from the 40% new French oak contribution. The colour is bright and almost luminous....

Mount Barker

Cabernet Sauvignon

This comes from a 1974 planting of Houghton clone vines and spent 18 months in French oak, about 40% of which was new. This is a cracking good cabernet sauvignon, capturing everything you expect from the variety. The nose reveals blackcurrant, black olive and a dollop of dark chocolate. The palate is firm with terrific structure, defined by fine tannins,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a remarkably plush and polished cabernet from this cooler vintage. Ripe blackcurrant and dark chocolate aromas with a trace of fruit pudding. The palate is dense and concentrated with a slightly liqueur cherry and dark chocolate flavour balanced with some nice minerally tannins and a decent lick of oak.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is predominantly cabernet, but small bits of petit verdot, cabernet franc, and malbec have played their role in completing an excellent wine for drinking in the medium term. Colour is deep and dark red, and the nose displays a Margaret River combination of blackcurrant, bay leaf, a little black olive, and fruitcake. The palate is medium-bodied but with good...

Geographe

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegantly structured and quite precise cabernet capturing the beautiful characters of cabernet in a cooler vintage. Spicy blackcurrant with a little sage bush on the nose. The medium-bodied palate shows a graphite and cracked seas shell minerality with a plush sweet fruit lift. The tannins are chalky and fine while the oak well managed.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A consistently strong performer, especially with their reds. This is a terrific wine from the exceptional 23 vintage. Shows the rich opulence of the vintage with the firm thread of dark fruits and firm minerally tannins of the region. Cleverly managed oak and fine firmish tannins hold the core together to a long finish. Perfectly balanced.

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet, cabernet, cabernet. That’s what you get with this terrific example of both the vintage and the vineyard. There’s a pure varietal expression here, with strong blackcurrant and subtle black olive notes on the nose. And then a palate that is so seamlessly structured and integrated, capturing the beauty and almost prettiness of this slightly cooler but outstanding vintage in...

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.

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A very pretty wine that opens with a floral red berry combination on the nose underpinned by pure varietal blackcurrant. Comes off the excellent Riversdale vineyard and it’s medium bodied elegance reflects both the vineyard and the season. The palate is still quite tight but there is ample fleshy fruit. A slightly ironstone ferruginous character edges in while the oak...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A beautifully fragrant and elegantly structured blend from the Great Southern. Aromas of blackcurrant and ripe plum pudding with a lifted minerally black olive mix. The palate is plush and smoothly textured with fine chalky tannins providing a strong backbone. Quality at an excellent price.

Western Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

Crazy, crazy, that a cabernet with this much style and personality should be selling for less than $15. But, it is. The blackcurrant and plummy combination opens on the nose and swells into the palate. It's so smooth and velvety yet there is ample structural tannin and crisp acid to control and direct the finish.

Mount Barker

Cabernet Sauvignon

What a sensational wine. Perfumed and powerful with tremendous concentration and power. Used some concrete fermentation and stainless steel. Has beautiful elegance and weight through the palate with fine chalky tannins and fine-grained oak influence. Has such an ethereal aroma of violet and red berry. Tremendous power here yet it’s elegant and pretty. This is 100% cabernet.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Excellent small volume season contributed to the structure and power of this cabernet. It's quite a firm serious statement of the variety with a thread of steely tannin and oak supporting powerful dark fruits with a little minerally black olive influence. Palate is loaded with dark fruits and a chocolate richness that sustains to a very long finish. Serious stuff...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a wine that shows how good the warm '24 vintage could be in the right hands. It's been masterfully crafted, displaying quite beautiful, vibrant black and red fruits on the nose, with even a hint of blue-fruit complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated and intense, harnessed with chalky tannins and the right touch of oak to produce a seamless,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A vintage that produced wines of elegance and style, and this generously texture full bodied wine is a classic example. Leafy blackcurrant and black olive aromas with a little bay leaf and light graphite. The palate is beautifully poised and controlled with fine-grained oak and fine chalky tannins working harmoniously. Black fruits emerge throughout. That graphite edge follows the palate...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

You might remember this as it was previously called Girt by Sea. It also has a small amount of merlot and petit verdot. It was a great year, and this wine has captured it all, delivering wonderful aromatics and perfumes, with deeper black fruits and violet, and that slightly minerally character on the finish. It has structure, it has poise,...

Mount Barker

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the oldest cabernet plantings in the Great Southern, having started in 1972. Nelson picks in two portions and ferments separately in amphora and barriques with about 30% new oak. He is aiming for a modern style and more refined and elegant style of cabernet. It’s bright and lively with energy bursting through it. Has a floral note with...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the best of these I have tasted. It’s a beauty. The intensity of the opening salvo of blackcurrant, dark cherry and light graphite on the nose points to what might lay ahead. Yet when you get to the palate it is so elegantly structured and almost supple as it extends to an effortlessly long finish, A thread of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This has been part of the Snake + Herring portfolio since 2011 and has evolved from its original Bordeaux blend into a predominantly Cabernet wine with very small contributions from Malbec and Merlot. The aroma is immediately vibrant and alive with bright red fruit notes and a backdrop of blackcurrant and black olive. The palate has generosity but is more...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Two varieties certainly benefited from the warm season – expressive, vibrant, bright fruit concentration and life. Aromatic notes of perfume, violet, blackcurrant and a little leaf. The palate has a firm core, but it's delightfully supple and fruity while retaining the poise you expect with this combination. Only 20% new oak was used, but the wine stands tall and in...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A slightly fleshy Margaret River cabernet with excellent structure and poise. Dark fruits show blackcurrant and ripe plum with a trace of edgy black olive. The palate is smooth and seamlessly integrated. Chalky tannins and supporting oak complete a tidy wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firmish medium bodied cabernet from this excellent red vintage, showing the deep of fruit intensity and rich flavours you expect. Leafy blackcurrant and light cedar with a trace of graphite and bay leaf on the nose. The palate is tightly wound but with good fruit intensity focussed to the finish.

Western Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

Beautiful contemporary style of modern cabernet. It's medium-bodied, but there are oodles of black fruits, with a cherry, plummy, blackberry combination well to the fore. The palate is medium weight but with generous flavours, as dark fruits with a little bay leaf lift and subtle creamy vanillin characters provide a compelling combination. Retains its bright red fruits through to the...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A wine that offers so much immediate pleasure. Opens with a strong and distinctive mix of blackcurrant and ripe satsuma plum with a richer dark chocolate backdrop. It’s a rich and supple wine with depth and fruit concentration. Nice tannin and oak structural input. Score: 92/100 Cellar: 7 years

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Mandoon sources the fruit for this excellent cabernet from Wilyabrup, and 2023 was a wonderful year. It’s loaded with black fruits, dark chocolate, a little black olive, and blackberry. The palate is seamlessly integrated, with oak and tannin providing fine support to the exceptional fruit. Dark fruits dominate, but the style remains medium-bodied, with a brightness and purity that shine....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A generous, yet still structurally defined cabernet sourced from low yielding established vines. Dark chocolate, plush mulberry and bright red slightly jubey cherry. It’s an engaging aroma to open. The palate is intricately woven with fine tannins and fine-grained oak lacing the deep and concentrated fruit into a seamless expression through to a long finish. A racy vibrant acidity really...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A medium-bodied cabernet from this slightly cooler vintage. It’s a most elegant and almost statuesque wine with its body of blackcurrant and bay leaf, with a little oyster shell minerally graphite evident. Supremely balanced and poised palate is held tight and controlled, but there is ample flesh and fruit concentration.