2015 Voyager Estate Cellar Release Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River

50% new French oak. It's as much about texture and length as it is about flavour, though there's certainly no shortage of the latter. It tastes of dark chocolate and coffee, blackcurrant and black licorice, with gum leaf notes adding lift. Tannin. We need to talk about tannin. It's so fine and yet so firm in this wine; it's like a wise old cope, perfect in its under-zealous application of the law. What we have here is a wine perfectly positioned to age magnificently. Drink by 2044.

96 point Campbell Mattinson for Halliday Wine Companion, June 2021

A firm and silky red with gorgeous blackberry, chocolate and hazelnut character. Cedar, too. Full body, chewy tannins and a polished and persistent finish. Shows tenure and tension. Drink after 2021.

94 points James Suckling, May 2019

Deep, bright-rimmed ruby. A highly perfumed, spice-tinged bouquet displays cherry liqueur, black currant, vanilla and incense qualities and a smoky mineral overtone. Seamless and lively on the palate, offering concentrated dark berry, rose pastille, spicecake and cola flavors that deepen slowly with aeration while maintaining energy. Sharply focused and lithe for its depth, with building florality and fine-grained tannins lending gentle grip to the clinging finish. 50% new French oak. Drink 2025–2037.

93 points Josh Reynolds for Vinous, September 2020

The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon is being released again in 2025, and the wine hails from an interesting season in Margaret River. Initially, the wines looked reserved and backward, and of all the vintages this century, it is one of the most confounding to my palate. Having said this, the wines have started to open up in the last year or two, and I believe they are entering into their first drinking window around about now. This is all dried leaves and crushed rocks, cocoa powder and forest floor, hints of peat and burning tobacco on the wind. The wine is ready to drink now, go forth. Drink 2025–2030.

93 points Erin Larkin for The Wine Advocate, January 2026

This is the inaugural Voyager Estate Cellar Release. A decade on from vintage it is still youthful, composed and developing at its own unhurried pace.

The organically farmed estate is in the cooler southern part of Margaret River, a region known for producing Australia's most Bordeaux-like Cabernet. The 2015 season saw early budburst, a cooler spring that naturally reduced yields, then a warm summer that built tannin ripeness and flavour complexity. Fruit came from three heritage blocks, blended with a small addition of Merlot, and aged for 18 months in French oak with 50% of which was new.

Medium brick red in appearance, the nose shows sweet red berries, graphite, mocha and dusty cedar. The palate is complex and composed with supple tannins, brisk acidity and a long, balanced finish. A mid-weight, elegant and refined expression of Margaret River Cabernet.