A great one to cellar, this is everything you’d expect from a quality Clare Valley cabernet. It’s leafy and cedary with mulberry, black olive and herbal notes. Impeccably structured, it has just the right balance of plush fruit richness and fine tannin; a magic combination of power and elegance. It will easily cellar for 10 years or more. Enjoy it with rich meaty dishes.
JAMES HALLIDAY
Rich, firm and showing excellent persistence. There are no queries over the wine’s complexity either. Dust, herbs, a juicy flow of blackcurrant, earthen notes, tobacco characters. Toasty oak is a subtle influence at most. Eucalypt characters are there, as rising agents, without ever threatening to dominate. And tannin is a solid, majestic swirl through the back half of the wine.
95 pts - James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2017