An elegant, stylish and deeply scented pinot noir from the Tamar Valley and Pipers River in northern Tasmania. Laced with a deep perfume of rose petals, musk and red cherries with a whiff of pomegranate, cola and dried herbs. Its gentle cedary oak also underpins its round, almost unctuous palate of medium weight, as its core of red and maraschino cherry extends with suppleness and and mouthcoating intensity down a gentle spine. It finishes long and lively, with lingering notes of red licorice and a vivacious acidity.

Simply an astonishing, classical and perfectly balanced cabernet revelling in its style and power. Its bouquet is saturated by with fruit and florals as pristine, concentrated scents of cassis, dark plums and black cherries are tightly knit with cedar/cigarboxy oak and lifted by sweet scents of violets and dried wild herbs. Underpinned by a firmish, powdery spine of drying tannins, its luscious, mouthfilling core of vivacious fruit extends tightly ordered and complete towards a lingering, dry and faintly mineral finish. Exuding class and finesse, it’s emphatic but controlled, flaunting its artful integration with excellent polished oak. A Queen Mary (reference the liner) of a cabernet, and one of the finest from Australia in decades.