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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Concentrated, juicy and delicious Margaret River cabernet from this great season. Masses of blackcurrant and dark chocolate with a lift of African violet on the nose. On the palate subtle notes of bay leaf and subtle sage bush add complex notes. It’s firm through the core as cabernet should be but there is a decent wrapping of warm red flesh.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Pure and intense essence of Margaret River cabernet here. This powerhouse wine was culled from the best barrels to achieve the purest expression of Margaret River cabernet. Black fruits swirl through the densely packed palate. The tannins have a grainy feel while the slightly toasty oak adds just the right touch to the palate.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that pays homage to Dr John Gladstones, whose work was largely responsible for the development of Margaret River. This is right up there with any that have been made, coming from a vintage that was well suited to the variety. Leafy blackcurrant fruit with a graphite oyster shell nuance working with a sliver of black olive. It's a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Smart cabernet for under $30. From the Scholar Vineyard in Wilyabrup, the source of some of Capel Vale’s finest reds. Black fruits with chocolatey bay leaf and a touch of minerality on the nose. The palate is smooth and seamless—black fruits dominate with dark plum, framed by fine, sinewy, slightly chalky tannins. Medium weight but with impressive flavour intensity. Ideal...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was quite a challenging season in many ways, being cooler and quite wet. Yet when the fruit has been well managed you finish with top class wines. This is in line with the vineyard and vintage, being slightly angular and fine. Aromas of red currant and muted violet and other floral notes. The structured and quite detailed palate is...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The fruit comes from Rob Mann’s Calgardup vineyard, with about 6% cabernet franc. Classically cabernet in character, it has a leafy blackcurrant lift on the nose, with redcurrant, oyster shell and cracked seashell characters. Medium-bodied and wonderfully expressive, it has a vibrant tannin line that reflects the vineyard’s proximity to the ocean. There is a crunchy, energetic quality throughout, with...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine shows the benefit of an extra year in the bottle. Not the perfume of the 2018, but there is structure and poise here. Pronounced seaweed nori aroma with blackcurrant fruitiness and slightly toasty oak. This was a vintage that continues to reveal itself and should never be overlooked. It has such a seamless and slinky integrated palate that...

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...

Great Southern

Cabernet Blend

A wine that always delivers, year in and year out. In fact, if you want value for money with a touch of class, this one is right on the money. Dark plum and blackcurrant with a drizzle of chocolate open on the nose. The palate is bright and fruity with a neat controlling thread of oak and tannin. A good...

Wow, this is cracking good value for money. Classy red wine from this excellent vintage. The colour is extraordinary. Deep, reddy purple, subtle crimson hues. The nose is a power-packed engine room of blackcurrant and bay leaf, a little black olive, and some syrupy plum notes. Such a delightfully presented palate, capturing all the fruit intensity but delivering it with...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A very tidy wine from this cooler vintage. There is 25% new French oak, and it gets 14 months. The mid palate is boosted by malbec with petit verdot and cab franc which works into the meaty blackcurrant fruit with a little black olive and bay leaf character. There is a good tannin structure with neat oak integration. Not a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is such a good cabernet, especially when you consider the price of $30. It seems the Filius grows in sophistication and varietal expression each year. This was a cool year of course, but the fully ripe fruit delivers and then some. Has a little bit of malbec which is an important consideration for the wine, adding just that little...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A classically defined Margaret River cabernet sauvignon with tremendous concentration, structure and purpose. Aromas of blackcurrant combine with oyster shell minerality, subtle bay leaf and black olive. The palate introduces richer chocolate notes that weave through the dark fruit, supported by a firm framework of tannin and seamlessly integrated oak. A gentle leafy character adds further complexity. Powerful, poised and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The stylish elegance of this Margaret River vintage is perfectly captured in this classy cabernet. Sourced from the Wilyabrup subregion and displaying all those blackcurrant and dark chocolate characters you expect. Firm tannins and a slinky oak addition add to the plush fruit creating a stylish extension through to the finish. Like that minerality with a trace bay leaf on...

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

From a cool year Peterkin has managed to coax so much from the fruit for this impressive cabernet. The colour is deep for a start and the nose reveals fruit characters in the cherry and plummy spectrum rather than the usual varietal blackcurrant. The palate comes to life with a chalky oyster shell minerality combining with the dark fruit flavours....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that shows the continuing evolution of Margaret River cabernets, and this one, which is sort of the entry-level for Leeuwin as far as cabernet goes, is a cracking good example of the variety and how far it's come in recent years. It was a good season and it's captured here. It's largely cabernet, but a small percentage of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a cooler year in Margaret River, and like so many of the cabernet sauvignons from this vintage, it's taken a while for this to come together. But it's now drinking in its ideal zone, but of course with cellaring potential. Blackcurrant, graphite and dark chocolate nuances dominate the nose. The palate is seamlessly integrated, with fine-grained tannins, and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Pure and powerful Margaret River cabernet from right in the Wilyabrup dress circle. Opens with a salvo of fruit nuances on the nose. Blackcurrant and blackberry with some interesting blue fruit touches. Then there is the lifted bay leaf and minerally oyster shell. It is so classically cabernet. The palate is elegantly presented but deeply intense with dark fruits lifted...

Manjimup

Cabernet Sauvignon

The elegance and stylish poise of this cooler vintage is captured in this smooth and refined cabernet. Loaded with succulent blackcurrant fruits released initially on the nose and then powered through on the palate. There’s a little dried herb and bay leaf characters emerging with richer dark chocolate. A neatly presented cabernet.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

In line with this cooler late season, this cabernet is a stylish and elegantly structured wine that strongly reflects the vintage. More medium bodied with lifted floral and dried herb notes on the nose. Lovely mix of red fruits with bay leaf and light black olive notes merging with just a faint ironstone edge. Balanced and poised.

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Another thoroughly beautiful exquisitely presented cabernet from Alkoomi. It’s medium bodied but the power and intensity of the cabernet fruit has been captured. This is cool climate cabernet at it’s best with blackcurrant displaying savoury and meaty cedary influences. The tannins are firm and controlling allowing the fruit to extend effortlessly to a very long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Opens with such a beautiful exotic perfume. Violets and red berry with a background of blackcurrant and cherry. A Margaret River wine displaying elegance and refinement through a seamless yet structured palate. Gentle tannins and a light touch of oak harmonise bringing energy and life into a vibrant medium bodied palate.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2022 vintage in Margaret River was initially underrated to some extent, but increasingly the quality of wines being produced and released shows just what a good season it was. This is another excellent wine that's made in a largely traditional way. The nose delivers typical, right-on-the-money Margaret River, blackcurrant, black olive and a little bay leaf. There's just a...

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 Blend

This vintage was a challenge, yet Tom’s old vines have stood tall and delivered fruit for another exceptional statement of variety and region. The blend is 81% cabernet and 19% malbec with no petit verdot. All wild yeast and whole berry with 100% French oak for 16½ months, of which 68% was new. The aroma is somewhat muted, showing iodine...

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.

Geographe

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is an opulent and riper style of cabernet sourced from the Donnybrook region. Loaded with dark plummy fruit pudding fruit characters on the nose and palate. There's a little black cherry and dark chocolate richness with a grainy oak contribution. A wine for immediate enjoyment while those youthful fruit characters are so evident.

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

A thoroughly beautiful medium bodied cabernet starting to move into its best drinking zone. The extra time in bottle has allowed those subtle leathery, library book characters to merge with the primary red and black fruit characters. It is still firm as you would expect from this vintage, but the flesh and richness of the fruit balances it perfectly. Dark...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine comes from one of the earliest plantings in Margaret River. The Wilyabrup site was planted way back in 1973 and has been maintained as unirrigated before progressing to sustainable organic farming. This is one of the more elegant examples of this wine and an impressive follow-up to the 2018. The bay leaf and blackcurrant combination on the nose,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant Margaret River cabernet that reflects the cooler vintage. Full-bodied yet silky smooth with fine texture. Aromas of black olive, bay leaf and blackcurrant. The palate is neatly balanced with sweet fruit and dry savouriness.

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...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A refined and delightfully poised medium bodied cabernet displaying many of the attractive features of a cool climate in a cooler season. Lift of red berry and muted blackcurrant with a little chocolaty mulberry nuanced complexity. A stylish wine for medium term cellaring.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

An appealing medium bodied blend of dominant cabernet with merlot and petit verdot bringing their influences to the mid palate. Has a lifted aroma of blackcurrant and typical bay leaf on the nose with the faintest thread of graphite. The palate is focused and controlled with firmish fine tannins and a little oak holding the line through to a nice...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

There is a subregional characters about this cabernet from the northern end of Margaret River. Aromas of blackcurrant with an olive tapenade, bay leaf and oyster shell minerality on the nose. The palate is medium bodied with bright red fruits augmented with a juicy blackberry and light cedary influence. A very tidy cabernet.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Such a balanced and precisely poised cabernet from this very good red wine vintage. Comes off 35-year-old vines. It’s deeply intense, carrying all the blackcurrant, dark chocolate, and ripe plummy characters you expect. But then dig deeper and there’s the black olive, bay leaf, and minerally cracked seashell complexity. Lovely mouthfeel and a very long finish. Class wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The '21 vintage in Margaret River often receives some negativity, and it is an example of a wine that is now just five years old showing what could be achieved in the season. It's really come together quite beautifully, more in the medium-bodied zone. With leafy, dark blackcurrant and black olive nuances on the nose, and a little bay leaf...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stylish and expressive cabernet from this excellent year. On the nose, a leafy blackcurrant, dark cherry, and dark chocolate combination strut their stuff. The palate, which is more medium bodied, displays lovely red fruits and is supported by fine grainy tannins and well managed oak. It's bright as a button, balanced, and long.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Pretty happy when you can still find a 10-year-old Margaret River cabernet at an affordable price. This one’s terrific. It’s a rounded, full-bodied and generous style of cabernet, exhibiting the firmish tannins which earmark the vintage, but supported with great depth of fruit, displaying the blackcurrant, dark chocolate and slightly minerally oyster shell characters that you might expect. It’s now...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Captures the essence of Margaret River in a very good year. Engaging aromas of blackcurrant with a layer of dark chocolate and a subtle graphite minerality and dried herbs. A seamlessly structured palate with fine grainy tannins providing structure. There is power here as it drives through to a very long finish.