A stunning return to form for one of Australia’s most significant cabernet labels. Its dusty and complex fragrance of sweet cassis, cranberries, black olives, dark plums and fine-grained vanilla and walnut-like oak reveals a distinctive heady and floral quality, with undertones of rosemary and cedar. Firm and mouthfilling, it’s long and smooth, beautifully structured and deeply fruited with well-ripened varietal flavours of blackberries, mulberries and dark plums framed by firm but pliant tannins. Newish oak adds texture and structure, while nuances of mint, cedar and undergrowth contribute to its appealing complexity. It has balance, elegance and cellaring potential aplenty.

A ripe, assertive cabernet whose profound expression of jujube-like blackberry, plum and raisin-like fruit has received some handsome treatment in smoky chocolate/vanilla oak. Supported by a crunchy cut of drying astringency, itÕs backed by suggestions of mint and menthol. While it takes time to open fully, it steadily reveals more length, depth of dark fruit and smoothness of texture.

Explosively intense cassis-like fruit combines with fine-grained oak to deliver length and depth aplenty, but with a faint herbal underswell. Backed by nuances of minerals and dried herbs, its briary bouquet of mulberries, Ribena, dark plums and cherries knits with sweet chocolate/cedar oak. ItÕs long, smooth and brightly lit, with deeply concentrated fruit and vanilla oak underpinned by dusty, fractionally sappy tannins that become more crunchy with breathing, finishing with excellent length and just a hint of currant-like flavour. While itÕs a little too greenish to open now, IÕm confident in the cellaring potential of this wine.

A more herbal expression of cabernet whose delicate floral perfume reveals dark plums, cassis and red cherries lifted by floral and menthol-like scents and a hint of bell pepper. ItÕs smooth and supple Ð an elegant, ultra fine-grained cabernet whose intense flavours of small berries, dark cherries and plums open up very slowly, revealing a fine, powdery structure, a charming length and an acidity that will lose its greenish edges with time on the bottle.