Deeply scented, highly accentuated and translucent fruit is perfectly married with smoky cedar and vanilla oak in this powerful wine of rare balance, tightness and elegance. Perfectly ripened and mouthfilling cassis, blackberry and plum fruit of piercing length and intensity finishes lightly sour with a simply unbelievable cut of firm, powdery tannins. A great wine.

Ripe and heady aromas of cassis, mulberries and dark plums, with aromas of violets, cedar, vanilla and chocolate cigarboxy oak are lightly jammy. Ripe, smooth and sumptuous; long, soft and approachable. Squashy blackcurrants and blackberries are tightly knit with firm, powder-fine tannins and smoky, creamy, coconut American oak, finishing long and savoury. A very good wine, unusually approachable for Bin 707, and faster to mature than most.

A long, seamless and very sophisticated cabernet despite its significant dimensions, structure and power. It opens with an intense violet-like perfume of aromatic cassis, blackberries and dark plums over dark chocolate and mocha-like oak, with meaty, briary undertones. Simultaneously very firm and cultivated, it’s steeped in piercing flavours of blackberries, dark plums and cassis, and backed by very smart oak and robust, pliant tannins. It’s long and savoury, with a lingering core of explosive dark fruit and dusty, dried herb-liked nuances. A genuine Bin 707.

A return to the ultra-dense, blocky and old-fashioned expression of 707, this very dark, briary and brambly cabernet is deeply layered, very firm and assertive, lacking any pretence towards elegance and finesse. Its
deep and slightly minty aromas of blackberries, cassis and dark plums are backed by typically smoky, cedary, gamey, mocha/chocolate oak with a hint of eucalypt. ItÕs super-ripe and concentrated, with substantial density and power, but perhaps lacks a true core of genuinely vibrant fruit, of which there may be insufficient to last the usual distance. It will be interesting to watch this wine, whose major fruit component comes from Padthaway.