Ok – I’m super impressed with this wine. 2024 was an exceptionally hot and dry vintage for Margaret River, so it has taken a load of smarts in the vineyard and cellar to create this delicious wine. It’s a fuller, more robust and structural cabernet that actually is better on the fifth day of opening! Scented with cassis, dark cherries, blueberries and dark plums backed by smoky, dusty cedar/vanilla oak and lifted by a whiff of violet, it’s plush, full and firm – a classic Cru Bourgeois of some class. There’s a hint of soy at the finish. What an effort – and what value at $45! It seems the fruit usually destined for the Reserve label found its way into this wine. Total respect.