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Click on the link for each wine to view the label and tasting notes Cabernet Sauvignon & Cabernet Blends
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2002 Angus The Bull Cabernet Sauvignon Robert Parker - 90 points $19.50 per bottle 2008 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "A more classic Balnaves style... very intense and long" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Full bodied, but fresh and lively... Full bodied, but fresh and lively" - The Wine Front, 93 points $29.95 per bottle 2007 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "A classic dark, precisely balanced and integrated Balnaves style... Savoury, smooth and fine-grained, it's vibrant, dark and mineral, opening to reveal layers of sweet, ripe fruit... supported by firm, silky-fine tannin" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "Intense Coonawarra fruit, with amazing purity and poise... full-bodied, dark and dense, with layered fruit coursing along the palate" - James Halliday, 95 points; "It's full bodied and very dense with rich chocolate and blackcurrant flavours - concentrated and strong... A brooding and moody Balnaves" - The Wine Front, 94 points $34.95 per bottle 2006 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "Has great poise... will reward patient cellaring" - James Halliday, 94 points; "A very good vintage for Balnaves and after a couple of days tasting I decided to slip it up to an Outstanding rating... fragrant yet rich, packed with Cassis and cherry... Full bodied and deep... big but beautifully balanced... Top wine " - Winorama, 94 points; "The line and length of it is super impressive... This is a real cabernet, straight up. I won't hear a word against it, it's delicious" - The Wine Front, 93 points $37.95 per bottle 2005 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "Stunner... impressive flavour... A classically framed wine in the mouth, savoury assertive tannins wrap around rich Cabernet fruit in regal formation. Another masterpiece!" - Nick Stock, 96 points; "Ripping good wine here... Great wine, this can only get better in a cool cellar. Balnaves are rocking" - Grant Dodd, 94+ points; "Generously proportioned and flavoured Cabernet Sauvignon" - James Halliday, 94 points $42.95 per bottle 2004 Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "Searingly intense, long and seamless... superbly structured and balanced... piercing berry, cherry and plum-like fruit... it's ripe, lavish and savoury, without a hint of over-ripeness. A great bargain" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "Packed with rich blackcurrant flavour and framed by perfectly sculptured tannins. Reeks of class... Buy up" - Grant Dodd, 94+ points; "Very concentrated, dense, full-bodied blackcurrant/blackberry fruit, with long, lingering tannins" - James Halliday, 94 points; "If you want value, terroir and cellarability then look no further" - Winorama, 94 points; "Picture of composure. Beautiful cabernet. Classic, dry, mouthfilling structure, essency blackcurrant fruit, integrated oak and a resounding finish... A real cabernet for real cabernet lovers" - The Wine Front, 93 points $45.95 per bottle 2009 Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "The medium-bodied palate is elegant, and infinitely better balanced than the standard wine, the tannins fine, the cedary oak in balance, the finish long and harmonious" - James Halliday, 96 points; "The most focused, precise and restrained Tally, that time may prove to rank among the finest and longest-lived" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points $79.50 per bottle 2007 Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "Power and grace... great concentration of fruit on the palate... wonderfully long and satisfying" - James Halliday, 97 points; Epicure Uncorked ***** $84.95 per bottle 2006 Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "Terrific density and palate structure, deep and intense... Swanky, youthful Cabernet at its finest" - Nick Stock, 96 points; "The palate is rich, deep, fine and very long" - James Halliday, 96 points; "A powerhouse that needs at least a decade of cellaring" - Winorama, 95 points; The Wine Front - 94 points $87.95 per bottle 2005 Balnaves The Tally Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 96 points; "Super wine" - Grant Dodd, 95 points; Winorama - 95 points; Jeremy Oliver - 94 points; "Coonawarra's modern flagship... Great" - Epicure Uncorked ***** $94.95 per bottle 2002 Barossa Valley Estate Epiphany Cabernet Merlot "A classy wine" - Winestate ****(*) $16.95 per bottle 2001 Best's Victoria Cabernet Sauvignon $14.95 per bottle 2007 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon $29.95 per bottle 2005 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Lovely, settled, well-ripened wine, flooded with coffee and dark cassis-like flavour... Right in the groove. Aroma, flavour, heart and finish. The best young Bowen cabernet I've tasted in yonks" - The Wine Front, 92 points; "Sumptuous and cedary cabernet... it's smooth, even and juicy" - Jeremy Oliver, 92 points; "The best Bowen cabernet in years... This is classic Coonawarra" - Peter Forrestal, 17.5 points $33.95 per bottle 2004 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Exceptional Coonawarra red wine... deeply flavoured and finely balanced wine of classical elegance and the promise of exceptional longevity. The benchmark Bowen Cabernet Sauvignon was always the very refined and Bordeaux-like 1984 vintage, but it might have met its equal from 2004" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "In top form and quite Bordeaux like... It's concentrated and flavour-packed, with ample fruit sweetness. Classy stuff" - Gourmet Traveller Wine , 95 points ***** ; "Is simply excellent, bursting with blackcurrant fruit and classy French oak. It's vibrant and intense" - Huon Hooke; "Now this is the stuff! What a wonderful wine... angular and linear, yet mouthfilling at this same time. Earthy, smoky and bursting with cooked cherry and blackcurrant, yet with beautiful frin grained tannins, and a long finish... A shade away from outstanding" - Wine Without Wank $39.95 per bottle 2000 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a very fine wine, showing clearly why Bowen cabernet is so cherished by wine lovers. Fabulously pure, generous, varietal blackcurrant aromas... In the mouth it's rich, robust, muscular and flavoursome, with generous blackcurrant fruit depth, appropriate tannins, and stunning flavour persistence. Pour it on, Bowen. This is the goods" - The Wine Front, 92 points; "A powerful, complex and deep palate, exuding ripe fruit, ripe tannins and plenty of oak" - James Halliday, 92 points $39.95 per bottle 1999 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Doug Bowen rates this vintage as one of the best of the last decade, on a par with the 1996 and 1990; Excellent with **** for value - Ric Einstein $42.95 per bottle 1998 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 95 points; "Primary fruit screams out of the glass... Soft and round, impeccably balanced and showing a lot of class. Classic Coonawarra structure, elegant yet generous, and very long. Great wine" – Divine Magazine; "On the palate, this wine is just as impressive. Pure, clean fruit combines with unobtrusive tannins to produce a harmonious, supremely balanced, beautifully integrated wine... Highly Recommended" - Ric Einstein $59.95 per bottle 1991 Bowen Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Very elegant, despite its rich, chocolatey palate and huge tannins. Terrific balance. Heaps of class... drinking beautifully now, and will hold for many years yet. Outstanding" – Divine Magazine $75.00 per bottle 1998 Brand's of Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot $37.95 per bottle 2000 Brand's of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "It's the approachability of this classy Coonawarra cabernet that makes it such a thrilling red... powerful, dense dark plum, black cherry and blackcurrant flavours... The essence of Coonawarra without the price tag" - Max Allen & Peter Forrestal $35.95 per bottle 1999 Brand's of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "High-fidelity Coonawarra! Blackcurrant jam, cassis, Ribena - all of the above... oodles of grapey charm and panache. It speaks throatily to us of both Coonawarra and cabernet... it will surely be long lived" - Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide, BEST CABERNET; "A cabernet of precise varietal character which will mellow out into a real charmer" - Paddy Kendler $37.95 per bottle 1998 Brand's of Coonawarra Cabernet sauvignon "I WAS SO ENAMOURED OF THIS WINE I RUSHED OFF TO BUY A CASE FOR MYSELF... it has blossomed, with voluminous blackberry and cassis fruit, the palate with great structure, class and elegance" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2001, 95 points; "Has an enormous flood of sweet, purpley, primary fruit and vanillin American oak that hooks you instantly from the very first sip. It is soft, smooth and perfectly balanced... there is enough oomph cleverly disguised by all that hedonistic fruit to see it evolve into something very special" - Divine Magazine $45.00 per bottle 2004 Brand's of Coonawarra The Patron Cabernet Sauvignon SIX TROPHIES; "Exceptionally bright, flavoursome and juicy cassis and blackcurrant fruit... a long and perfectly balanced finish" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Packed with sweet fruit... It has firm fine grained tannins, freshness and clarity and finishes pure and long. Delicious wine, approachable now, but probably much better later. Textbook Coonawarra Cabernet" - Winorama, 95 points; "This is a sensational wine with long-term cellaring potential. You wouldn't find a Bordeaux to match this quality anywhere near price" - Chris Shanahan $79.95 per bottle 1998 Brand's of Coonawarra Patron's Reserve "Powerful cassis/berry fruit which has soaked up the oak... It has exceptional balance and fine, soft tannins provide a special dimension to the mouthfeel" - James Halliday. 94 points; "A closed and brooding cabernet blend and whose ripe, firm and assertively oaked palate is built around a core of pure cassis and plum fruit" - Jeremy Oliver, 94 points $99.95 per bottle 2002 Brown Brothers Patricia Cabernet Sauvignon "A wine to challenge Grange... knocked the socks off everybody" - Jeff Gordon; "A very impressive, tightly packed, elegant cabernet sauvignon... Concentrated all round, with superior power and length. A classic in the making" - Huon Hooke, 95 points *****; "It's sensationa... Sublime cabernet, deep and long, substantial yet balanced, with an inner core of fruit flavour graced by fine tannin. Perfect for that special occasion!" - Paddy Kendler *****; Jeremy Oliver – 93 points; Epicure Uncorked ***** $59.95 per bottle 2001 Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon TOP 10 WINES OF THE PAST DECADE - Australian Financial Review; "Immensely powerful and complex cabernet" - Philip Rich, Top 20 Wines of 2005; "This is a real cabernet... In 12 to 15 years time, this wine will not only say something grand about Margaret River cabernet, but will match food like all-too-few others" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "Alluringly complex and tightly crafted long-term wine... Smooth and silky, it's firm and fine-grained" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "A wine of great power and concentration" - Huon Hooke; "Incredibly fine and elegant yet incredibly powerful and robust at the same time... extraordinary length. Wow!" - Max Allen; "An outstanding Cape Mentelle Cabernet which will be very long-lived... Intense black currant and red cherry fruit is the driving force behind a beautifully structured palate... Excellent length; great wine" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points; "Lovely wine" - James Halliday, 94 points; Tyson Stelzer - 94 points; "It's a powerhouse, with a great deal of fruit sweetness, flesh and classic" - Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** $89.95 per bottle 1999 Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a delicious, ageworthy, silken, medium-weight cabernet boasting glistening pools of blackcurrant and olive paste flavour... at its core there's lots of lovely, rich, ripe, flooding varietal flavour, which persists. Tannins are beautifully ripe" - The Wine Front, 95 points; "A very serious wine, dense and profound with a cellaring future of at least ten years. Definetly gold medal standard on my card" - Paddy Kendler *****, Jeremy Oliver – 93 points $89.95 per bottle 1998 Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon "This seriously impressive red is arguably the best wine yet made at Cape Mentelle, the star of the vintage for the region, and the best currently available Australian cabernet sauvignon... an opulent, complex and power-packed wine that needs five to 10 years to show its best" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, BEST CABERNET IN AUSTRALIA; "Lusciously sweet in the mouth, loaded with black fruit, spice and schmick oak that ride an ocean of fine, ripe chewy tannins. Huge length. Immaculate balance and showing great promise" - Divine Magazine; ". It's long and firm, with seamless oak integration, fine-grained tannins and a slightly greenish aspect, but should evolve with cigarboxy complexity" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points $99.00 per bottle 2004 Celestial Bay Margaret River Cabernet Merlot 2007 Sydney International Wine Competition - Blue/Gold Award Winner & one of the Top 100 Wines $21.95 per bottle 2009 Celestial Bay Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon "Potent bouquet with strong blackcurrant fruit is followed by a full-bodied palate with black fruits and powerful earthy tannins" - James Halliday, 94 points! $17.95 per bottle 2008 Celestial Bay Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon STUNNING VALUE - SIMPLY THE BEST VALUE CABERNET ON THE MARKET! $17.95 per bottle 2004 Celestial Bay Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon $21.95 per bottle 2004 Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon A delicious cabernet from a great vintage in McLaren Vale and from a winery that is really going places $19.95 per bottle 2006 Chalkers Crossing Hilltops Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 94 points $29.95 per bottle 2005 Chalkers Crossing Hilltops Cabernet Sauvignon "Powerful, intense varietal blackcurrant and dark chocolate fruit ... perfect tannin and oak structure and balance" - James Halliday, 96 points; The top 40 wines for 2007 - NSW Wine Awards 2007; "What a wine! Dark, brooding and inky ... Great drop" - Wine Without Wank, Outstanding Quality, Good Value $34.95 per bottle 2001 Clairault Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 90 points $24.95 per bottle 2000 Clairault Estate Cabernet Merlot $26.95 per bottle 2000 Clairault Estate Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 91 points $29.95 per bottle 2009 Craggy Range Sophia Merlot Cabernet Franc "Rich and concentrated, this is nearly massive in its density and body, the fruit flavours filling the palate... The extraction is serious, and provides a powerful structure, yet the tannins are fine and powdery. The wine features incredible tension and freshness from the acidity, and the palate has great length. The balance of the wine offers remarkable accessibility, but this will develop greater interest and complexity over the next 10-15+ years" - Raymond Chan, 20.0 points out of 20 (PERFECT SCORE!); "Bordeaux beware: this is every bit as good as that of many classed growth chateaux wines from the outstanding '09 Bordeaux vintage... ultra-expressive bouquet... then awe-inspiring drive through the length of the classic medium-bodied palate" - James Halliday, 97 points; "Deep set buoyant wine... Very smooth and seductive wine. Power and elegance. One for the long haul" - Andrew Caillard MW, 19 points out of 20; "Deeply coloured, full-bodied, sweet-fruited and supple, with highly concentrated, ripe cassis, plum and spice flavours" - Michael Cooper *****; "Delicious rich, ripe and smooth... full-bodied, sweet-fruited and supple, with highly concentrated, ripe cassis, plum and spice flavours" - Winestate ***** $74.95 per bottle 2008 Craggy Range Sophia Merlot Cabernet Franc "Elegant, seamless red... A peacocks tail of layered flavours is displayed on the finish. Subtle power and extraordinary length with a great mouthfeel and silken texture. Restrained, elegant wine with great potential" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, 97 points *****; "A wine that will develop silken textures with fragrance and cedar"- Raymond Chan, 18.5 points $72.95 per bottle 2007 Craggy Range Sophia Merlot Cabernet Franc 1st Placing - 2009 Wine Spectator Review (Gimblett Gravels versus Bordeaux Tasting); "This is one of the finest Bordeaux blends ever made in New Zealand. It will be a wonderful keeping wine... VALUE" - Geoff Kelly, 19.5 points *****; "Thoroughly justifies its exalted status... A very serious red... the best wine under this label since it was first made in 2001" - Bob Campbell MW, 97 points *****; "Full-bodied and beautifully balanced... a stunning wine... Superb" - Neal Martin, 95 points; "An elegant, balanced, classic wine, flush with plummy, curranty, chocolatey flavour and touched by spice. As is so often the case with superior wines, it... a smooth, complete wine" - The Wine Front, 95 points $79.95 per bottle 2004 Craggy Range Sophia Merlot Cabernet Franc (375ml) "Superb... The actual freshness and intensity of berry is stunning... this wine will be a marvellous foil for 2003 and 2005 St Emilions and Pomerols, in future comparative tastings" - Geoff Kelly, 19.0 points *****; Bob Campbell MW - 94 points *****; "A powerful and firmly structured red for serious cellaring... this label is destined to become an icon" - Home & Entertaining Magazine, 93 points; "A palate that is pure concentration and class" - Sue Courtney $39.95 per bottle 2008 Craggy Range The Quarry Cabernet Merlot $72.95 per bottle 2007 Craggy Range The Quarry Cabernet Merlot "Anyone who doubts New Zealand's ability to make great Cabernet Sauvignon should taste this Cabernet dominant blend... Dense and enormously powerful red... the potential to be even more spectacular with greater bottle age" - Bob Campbell MW, 98 points *****; "The popular view will be The Quarry is the superior wine of the two premium 2007 Craggy Hawkes Bay / Bordeaux blends. The only way to find out is to secure a case of each, for they will both cellar for 20 years easily... lashings of fruit... beautifully made" - Geoff Kelly, 18.5 points ***** $85.00 per bottle 2003 Cullen Cabernets Limited release beauty, outstanding value; ***** Gourmet Traveller Wine - 94 points $44.95 per bottle 2009 Cullen Cabernet Merlot $32.95 per bottle 2009 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "Has ascended to hitherto unknown heights of restraint... more elegantly poised and yet impeccably ripe than ever... An immaculately crafted DM that will go down among the greatest and longest-lived yet" - Tyson Stelzer, 98 points; "A superlative wine, beautifully balanced, measured and focused, already revealing remarkable complexity and character... an unctuous, long and seamless palate... deeply layered and flavoured, finishing with exemplary balance" - Jeremy Oliver, 98 points; "Soft, full, deep, long and generous. The fine tannins and mouthfeel are supple, silky and seamless. The key component of flavour quality - length - is there in spades... This will prove to be one of Cullen, Margaret River's and Australia's greatest Cabernets from one of their greatest vintages" - John Jens, 18.8 points ; "It's an extraordinary, harmonious, elegant cabernet, easily among the best yet made in Australia" - Chris Shanahan $99.95 per bottle 2007 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "Glorious wine... this is as close to perfection as one can imagine in terms of structure, texture and its complex fruit flavours. Great now, greater still in another 10 years" - James Halliday's Top 100 of 2009, 97 points; "It's an extreme, profoundly beautiful thing" - Philip White, 95+++ points; "It's going to be magic in the long term" - Gary Walsh, 95+ points; Campbell Mattinson - 94 points; "This is one of the greatest Diana Madeline's" - Vanya Cullen; Epicure Uncorked ***** $99.00 per bottle 2006 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "Ravishing red... It's cheeky yet plush, elegant yet intense, infant yet incredible. One of our best cabernets ever" - Philip White, 94+++ points $90.00 per bottle 2005 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "Wow! Elegance meets structure, meets sophistication" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; Halliday's Top 100 of 2008 - 96 points; Philip Rich Top 20 Wines of 2007; Paul Ippolito - 96 points; "It friggin rocks" - Philip White, 95++ points; "This is a boomer. It is the best since 2001" - The Wine Front, 95 points; Winorama - 95+ points; "My top WA wine of the year" - Peter Forrestal, 19.0 points $105.00 per bottle 2004 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot Jeremy Oliver - 97 points; "Extraordinary cabernet merlot.... Great" - Epicure Uncorked *****; James Halliday - 95 points; "This cabernet sauvignon is stunning" - Jane Faulkner; "Outstanding... ranks with the 1995, 1999 and 2001 vintages" - Vanya Cullen $120.00 per bottle 2003 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot Halliday's Top 100 of 2005 - 96 points; Jeremy Oliver - 95 points; "Another great Diana Madeline" - Tyson Stelzer, 95 points $99.00 per bottle 2001 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "It's heady and opulent, succulent and meaty, and offers a simply unreal length and persistence of exaggerated fruit" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "This is a tremendous, statuesque, upstanding wine" - The Wine Front, 97 points; "... one of the best wines ever produced in Australia . Rating? Who needs one with a wine like this!" - www.torbwine.com; "Its sheer class shines through the trappings of extreme youth" - James Halliday, 96 points; "This is without question one of the really great Cullen cabernets" - Philip Rich, AFR Top 20 Wines of 2003 $145.00 per bottle 2000 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot "Superb balance, length and harmony" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "Best Cabernet Blend in Australia " - Gourmet Traveller; Halliday's Top 100 - 94 points $120.00 per bottle 1999 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot Jeremy Oliver - 97 points; James Halliday - 96 points ; "Absolutely brilliant wine" – Winewise $155.00 per bottle 1997 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot James Halliday - 95 points; Jeremy Oliver - 93 points $120.00 per bottle 1996 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot James Halliday - 95 points; Jeremy Oliver - 95 points $150.00 per bottle 2008 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon $46.95 per bottle 2006 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon "Probably the finest Cabernet Sauvignon we have ever made, even better than the 2004" - David Jones; "A layered, complex wine" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Well structured cabernet of inherent class" - The Wine Front, 93 points $59.95 per bottle 2004 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon "A superb cabernet... it's sumptuous and deeply layered... Beautifully complete, balanced and very stable; set for the long term" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; Tyson Stelzer - 96 points; James Halliday - 95 points; The Wine Front - 94 points $69.95 per bottle 2003 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 90 points $54.95 per bottle 2002 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 92 points; Jeremy Oliver - 92 points $74.95 per bottle 2004 Dog Ridge Digs Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon A magnificent McLaren Vale cabernet from a block of low-yielding 60 year-old vines $29.95 per bottle 2002 Dog Ridge DV3 Cabernet Sauvignon "Outstanding McLaren Vale cabernet... A deep, muscular, well structured cabernet with good varietal fruit, a lick of chocolate, lovely fleshy richness and a nice grip to finish. A long-termer" - Huon Hooke; "The palate is rich and supple, with sweet blackcurrant, chocolate, vanilla and spice" - James Halliday, 92 points; "Ample in weight; almost seamless with a supple consistency the tannins are smooth but the wine is deceptively well balanced with a structure solid. Good quality fruit is the driving force in this wine" - Torbwine.com **** $34.50 per bottle 2004 Dog Ridge Original Plantings Cabernet Sauvignon A tour de force, made from a tiny block of pre-clonal original plantings in the 1940's; only 40 dozen produced; FAILED EXPORT ORDER GOING OUT AT HALF PRICE $49.95 per bottle 2006 Dog Ridge Square Cut Cabernet Sauvignon Delicious cabernet from old vines; "Supple blackcurrant fruit on a feather bed of downy tannins; very long finish and aftertaste" - James Halliday, 93 points; "This wine has a brooding quality. Firm cherry skin and cassis flavors are brightened by juicy acidity... More tangy red berry flavors come up on the finish, which is refreshingly brisk, dry and long" - Stephen Tanzer, 90 points $26.95 per bottle 2008 Dog Ridge 'The Pup' Cabernet Merlot Full flavoured, juicy - absolute pearler for the price $14.95 per bottle 2005 Edwards Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon "This wine smacks of an excellent vintage... asit opens it lays thick cassis and chocolate flavours across your tongue, before savoury, ripe, lengthy tannins take over. Pop it in the cellar for 5-7 years, and it should turn out lovely. Beautifully balanced" - The Wine Front, 92 points $27.95 per bottle 1996 Elderton Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Robert Parker - 91 points $39.95 per bottle 2006 Esk Valley Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec A fragrant, finely structured, beautifully proportioned wine that can not be recommended highly enough for those looking for affordable alternatives to quality Bordeaux; "It's substantial, loaded with flavour and personality" - Warren Barton, Top 100 Wines; "Offers very attractive drinking now, elegant and medium-bodied" - Independent Wine Monthly $29.95 per bottle 2003 Fermoy Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "... classical Margaret River cabernet"; Gold Medal (18.5 points) - Scoop Magazine; Tyson Stelzer - 90 points $29.95 per bottle 1999 Fermoy Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Superb small Margaret River producer $36.50 per bottle 1998 Fermoy Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon $56.50 per bottle 2009 Ferngrove Majestic Cabernet Sauvignon The most consistent and best value cabernet to come out of Western Australia; multi-layered palate with great structure, length and finesse; precisely articulated cabernet expression; "Lovely balance and poise. This wine reeks of class... The palate is very complete, with superb fruit in evidence...The best value wine here!" - Fine Wine Club, 18.0/18.5 points out of 20; "Stylish, elegant, finely balanced and tightly focused... dense, youthful and briary cabernet... with intense primary fruit ... finishing long and willowy... Likely to become smoky and cigarboxy with time" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points $25.95 per bottle 2007 Ferngrove Majestic Cabernet Sauvignon TROPHY for BEST CABERNET SAUVIGNON OF THE 2008 PERTH WINE SHOW (including wines from the stunning 2007 WA vintage); James Halliday - 94 points; "Long, smooth and fine-grained, its firmish palate of slightly minty small berries and cassis is sweetly ripened, juicy and seamlessly integrated with fresh oak and dusty tannins. It finishes with length, freshness and balance" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; "It's a quality wine" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "I believe they stand as great a chance as any of becoming tomorrow's icons" - Jeremy Oliver $29.95 per bottle 2001 Ferngrove The Stirlings A wine of great structure, length and finesse - one for the classicists; "Stylish mix of red and black fruits, dark chocolate and fine, ripe tannins... Very impressive Bordeaux style" - James Halliday, 95 points; "This is definitely one to keep for a while but it will produce results" - Winewise, Highly Recommended; Five Emerging Classic Wineries - Jeremy Oliver $49.95 per bottle 1999 Gartner Family Cabernet Sauvignon "Quality tar-and-blackcurrant-and-mint fruit. The palate is long and fine and thrillingly intense. A great wine and despite vintage hype, better than its 1998 version. Buy it" - The Wine Front, 94 points; "Stunner. It's a dense, fleshy wine with marvellous structure and oodles of style... a smooth powerful palate" - The Age Uncorked ***** $39.95 per bottle 2002 Giaconda Cabernet Sauvignon "It's smooth and pliant with a beautiful spread of fine grained tannins, balanced acidity and a finish of exemplary length. A wine of composure and significant cellaring potential" - The Wine Front, 96 points (Tasted Feb 2009); Jeremy Oliver - 95 points; "One of the finest cabernets in the country from that vintage" - Max Allen $115.00 per bottle 2001 Glenmore Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Ian Bell's (ex-winemaker Moss Wood) own label; James Halliday - 92 points $49.95 per bottle 2002 Goundrey Offspring Cabernet Sauvignon $19.50 per bottle 2001 Green Valley Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Made by Moss Wood's Keith Mugford - an absolute cracker $34.50 per bottle 2002 Hamilton's Ewell Sturt River Cabernet Shiraz James Halliday - 87 points $14.95 per bottle 2002 Heath's Wines 'Southern Roo' Cabernet Shiraz "Fantastic value" - Tim White, 88 points; James Halliday -87 points $13.50 per bottle 2005 Helm Premium Cabernet Sauvignon "This is one of the best standout Cabernets I've tasted this year in Australia... is it supremely structured, it shows world class elegance and balance" - Drew Lambert; "What a lovely, big rich wine this Canberra cabernet is" - Rick Allen; "Potent and intense...great aftertaste" - James Halliday, 94 points; "This is a Cabernet to rival the best in the country" - Fergus McGhie $37.95 per bottle 2004 Henschke Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon "A fabulous wine, rich and deep, long and piercing... bustling fruit vibrancy, seamless and lush, varietal and pristine. Cassis, cedar, musk, dust, mulberries, all of it jumping out of its skin... Outstanding cabernet" - The Wine Front, 95 points; "Just brilliant... deeply concentrated, finely structured, full of intense, coiled complexity" - Max Allen $110.00 per bottle 2001 Henschke Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon "Medium-bodied; elegant, finely structured style... long, balanced finish" - James Halliday, 92 points $110.00 per bottle 1998 Henschke Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon "The sort of wine you could easily love forever... Just take it to dinner and swoon. Complex... Tense and powerful but not overly dense. Voluptuous but mannered - a stylist's wine, and a superb one" - The Wine Front, 97 points; James Halliday - 94 points $160.00 per bottle 1996 Henschke Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon "Glorious wine" - The Wine Front; Jeremy Oliver – 95 points; "Elegant and fine, particularly the absolutely beautiful tannins and gentle oak" - James Halliday, 94 points $135.00 per bottle 2006 Henty Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Classically structured cool-grown cabernet sauvignon" - James Halliday, 94 points $24.95 per bottle 2002 Heritage Steve Hoff Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon "Rich blackcurrant, blackberry and chocolate on a sumptuous palate" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Big, butch and oaky... but there's also cab sav's unmistakable fragrant, juicy, licorice-and-blackcurrant richness and poise running through it" - Max Allen $29.95 per bottle 2001 Heritage Steve Hoff Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon $24.95 per bottle 2001 Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon "Brilliant, long-flavoured, persistent... Great wines usually require great tannins, and this wine has them in perfect form - it's the kind of magnificence that sets you all a tremor. There's also a rump of black-cored, blackcurrant-and-blackberry fruit... it wants for nothing. ... THE YEARS BEST AUSTRALIAN WINE, BAR NONE" - The Wine Front, 98 points; "Classy wine; abundant structure... blackcurrant and sweet fruit; long and silky" - James Halliday, 96 points; "This is supreme in every sense. Firm and tight structure of powerful cabernet... with a perfect fruit and oak integration... It's a very classy wine for long-term cellaring" - Ray Jordan, 94 points; "The palate is ripe and succulent but with savoury austerity" - The Age Epicure ***** $99.00 per bottle 1998 Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 94 points $95.00 per bottle 2004 Hugh Hamilton The Villian Cabernet Sauvignon "Archetypal McLaren Vale cabernet, flooded with juicy cassis/blackcurrant fruit swathed in dark chocolate; good tannins and oak" - James Halliday,94 points $27.95 per bottle 2002 Hugh Hamilton The Villian Cabernet Sauvignon "Particularly impressive, with strong varietal fruit in clear regional style... has lots of depth; a range of blackcurrant, blackberry and chocolate" - James Halliday, 94 points $29.95 per bottle 1998 Hugo McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon "Particularly impressive, with strong varietal fruit in clear regional style... has lots of depth; a range of blackcurrant, blackberry and chocolate" - James Halliday, 94 points $34.95 per bottle 1999 Ingoldby Cabernet sauvignon "A strongly regional palate, with chocolate and blackberry fruit in abundance; good tannins and oak" - James Halliday, 92 points; "Another rich, ripe, delicious red... ripe plum flavours, a lick of decent oak and a style that just says great-value" - Australian Good Taste; "Balanced, mellow berry and plum flavour which is rich and smooth" - Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide **** $21.95 per bottle 1998 Ingoldby Cabernet sauvignon "Most impressive but still a baby. Concentrated blackcurrant, blackberry. High fidelity fruit characters. Sweet and ripe. Lovely balance of wood" - Huon Hooke; Trophy for Best Value Red - Sydney International Wine Competition; "Iintense, concentrated berry fruit on the palate of considerable depth" - Nick Bulleid $29.95 per bottle 2004 Jacobs Creek St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon "The classic 2004 vintage has delivered an exemplary cabernet suited to long-term cellaring... deep and penetrative flavour... Long and smooth, it's finely shaped and balanced, delivering succulent dark fruit" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "Thought it was outstanding... Reserve, character, and structure... A classical Coonawarra cabernet" - The Wine Front, 93 points; Gourmet Traveller Wine *****; "Coonawarra cabernet at its very best" - Jeff Gordon, Best Wines for 2007 over $20; "Finishes long and fresh. This is a wine that shows elegance and restraint" - Winorama, 91 points $49.50 per bottle 1998 Jacobs Creek St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon "A quite delicious palate, with excellent structure... Winner of the coveted Montgomery Trophy at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2000" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2001, 95 points; "Classic cellaring Coonawarra cabernet. Sumptuous, long and creamy... a beautifully constructed palate of significant weight and balance. Deep flavours of plums, cassis and mulberry fruit last long" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points $65.00 per bottle 2001 Jamiesons Run Alexander Block Cabernet Sauvignon "Potent and powerful; pristine earthy, blackcurrant cabernet in classic regional style; uncompromising; needs many years" - James Halliday, 94 points $43.95 per bottle 2002 Jamiesons Run O'Dea's Block Cabernet Sauvignon "Massively powerful and deep blackcurrant... Needs decades " - James Halliday, 91 points $39.95 per bottle 2002 Juniper Crossing Margaret River Cabernet Merlot "Top value" - James Halliday; Winestate ****; Epicure Uncorked **** $19.95 per bottle 2001 Juniper Estate Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon "Perfectly modulated and balanced; generous fruit, oak and tannins" - James Halliday, 95 points; "From twenty-eight-year-old estate plantings... A great vintage in Margaret River has created a wine of sublime structure and intense frui... tight tannins, fine acidity and a neverending-story of a finish. A great, age-worthy Margaret River cabernet" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points; "A world standard bargain... top-notch Margaret River cabernet tattooed across its forehead... Outstanding wine and outstanding value" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "An elegant but powerful regionally styled cabernet with a sweet berry core. Very stylish and worth cellaring" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, 93 points *****; "The palate flavours are balanced, well structured and long... Margaret River and cabernet sauvignon at its best" - John Hanley; "Dense cassis and dark plum flavours, velvety texture and fine ripe tannins" - Peter Forrestal; "The palate has a lean, elegant Cabernet profile, with good depth and a sweet-fruit core, good line and length - Huon Hooke $39.95 per bottle 2004 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "On the palate full bodied... A monster cabernet that requires patience" - Winorama, 94+ points; "A seamless expression of Coonawarra cabernet" - Fergus McGhie *****; "It's big framed, big muscled, bulging Coonawarra" - The Wine Front - 92 points $44.95 per bottle 1999 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Fine-grained, long and elegant caberne... plush, succulent yet clearly directed long palate. A wine with poise and style, certainly one of the best from 1999" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "A superb wine" - Top 100 of the Sydney Wine Competition; "Another knockout cab from Katnook... full-bodied and concentrated- but tremendously elegant. A wine of great-style and personality"- Penguin Wine Guide *****; "Ripe, blackberry flavours. Very good Cabernet and very good with the food... a superb wine"- Sydney International Wine Competition Top 100; "A classic cedary, fine and long-flavoured Coonawarra" - Gourmet Traveller Wine $59.95 per bottle 1998 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Yet another Katnook red straight from the top drawer. It's a complex, sophisticated package whose vibrant flavours of violets and dark fruit marry perfectly with smoky mocha and cedar oak qualities. Powerful yet very supple and elegant, it reveals great depth and restraint" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "The palate has very good texture and structure, blackcurrant fruit coming to the fore" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Full body and lots of stuffing... wonderful concentration... finesse, allied with power" - Gourmet Traveller Wine $69.95 per bottle 2000 Knappstein Enterprise Cabernet Sauvignon TROPHY FOR BEST CABERNET IN THE WORLD - 2004 London Wine and Spirit Challenge; "Concentrated and powerful now, development will greatly enhance this wine which dense as it is, shows charm and elegance" - IWC; "Complex, rich, warm red of utter seduction... It fills the mouth with flavour then puckers it appreciatively with fine-but-assertive tannin - it's drop-dead delicious" - Winefront Monthly, 92 points $45.00 per bottle 2004 Lake Breeze Cabernet Sauvignon MULTI TROPHY WINNER; "This is such a snappy red for the money... delivers such a whopping dose of flavour and structure... This is $30-$35 quality " - The Wine Front, 92 points; "A refined, well balanced cabernet with very good blackcurrant fruit... It's long on the finish and very satisfying. Excellent value" - Winewise, Highly Recommended $21.50 per bottle 2001 Lakes Folly Cabernets "JEREMY OLIVER'S WINE OF THE YEAR FOR 2003; "Perhaps the estate's best yet: pristine and translucent, a fine, elegant cabernet blend of exceptional length and fineness. It's deeply fragrant and perfumed, with a smooth, satiny palate... An astonishing wine" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points; "A great vintage of Lake's Folly Cabernets, exuding black and red currant fruit... It finishes very long with fine firm tannins which scream out to be left in the cellar" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points $95.00 per bottle 1998 Leasingham Bin 56 Cabernet Malbec "It is a beautiful, firm, straight wine that will age elegantly" - 2001 Sydney International Wine Competition, Top 100; Jeremy Oliver - 92 points $29.95 per bottle 2006 Leconfield Cabernet Sauvignon Best Cabernet (Professional Judges) - 2008 Hyatt/Advertiser Wine of the Year Awards; "A staggering wine and one of the big challengers for the wine of the year award... intense brooding berry fruits, regional black olive and almost oily concentration. This has superior tanin texture, depth and intensity, long, even and balanced" - Adelaide Review, Top 10 Wines; "The longer it sits the more outstanding it seems... a helluva classy drop... will age like a charm" - The Wine Front, 94 points; James Halliday - 93 points $34.95 per bottle 2005 Leconfield Cabernet Sauvignon "Masses of activity the moment the wine enters the mouth; sweet blackcurrant fruit swirling around savoury, but ripe tannins; good oak" - James Halliday, 92 points; "Here's your classic case of a big, juicy blackcurrant, mint and chocolate cabernet... absolutely gorgeous" - Tony Love, 92 points; Paddy Kendler ***** $27.95 per bottle 2004 Leconfield Cabernet Sauvignon "Length. Lots of flavour. Lots of class. Really excellent cabernet. I am quite taken with this wine" - Winorama, 94 points; "Long, fine and tightly focused" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; Gourmet Traveller Wine *****; "A classic cabernet... Very intense, beautifully balanced and very long in the mouth, it should live for at least 25 years" - Huon Hooke $38.95 per bottle 2004 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon "Quintessential Margaret River... A long finish, fine tannins and impeccable balance round it out beautifully" - Michael Apstein , 95 points; "Good fruit sweetness, and the structure suggests a long and healthy life ahead" - James Halliday, 95 points; "The best Leeuwin Estate cabernet yet released... long, smooth and polished" - Jeremy Oliver, 94 points; "I can't recall a better Leeuwin cabernet... A big step up for Leeuwin Estate cabernet" - The Wine Front, 94 points; "This is the best Leeuwin cabernet released to date... A powerful, linear wine of structure and style" - Ray Jordan, 94 points $63.95 per bottle 2002 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a super-elegant and powerful wine with dense, sweet and very complex flavours... Very long. Power delivered with great subtelty" - Bob Campbell MW, 94 points *****; "Boasts remarkable balance and compelling intricacy of fruit, spice and earth qualities on the long, suave finish. For the money, this is a no-brainer in outstanding, ageworthy cabernet" - Michael Apstein, 94 points; James Halliday - 92 points $57.95 per bottle 2001 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon Michael Apstein - 96 points; "Focused and concentrated blackcurrant and blackberry fruit, with lingering tannins to underwrite a long life. One of the very best ever under this label" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Outstanding... Enjoy this beauty over the next decade" - Robert Parker, 91+ points $69.95 per bottle 2000 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon Michael Apstein - 95 points; "It's slick, juicy, alive and luxurious, with all its myriad components already melding into a seamless, silky smooth elixir" - Philip White, 95 points; "Finishes long and subtle, with very fine tannins, a suggestion of chocolaty oak, and lingering sweet fruit. A very good showing" - Stephen Tanzer, 92 points $57.95 per bottle 1999 Lindemans Pyrus Jeremy Oliver - 93 points; "The long, savoury palate shows the influence of merlot in the blend; finishes with lingering tannins" - James Halliday, 91 points $49.95 per bottle 1998 Lindemans Pyrus "Very stylish and elegan... bright, shapely and crystal-clear palate of pure red and black fruits... it's an accomplished, finely crafted and willowy wine" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "The wine has good structure thanks to clearly defined but ripe tannins, and will (by the standards of Pyrus) be long livedJames Halliday - 94 points; "Bags of potential lurking in the deep sweet fruits... rich, deep, fruity and ripe on the palate... highly appealing and skilfully balanced" - Sydney International Wine Competition $64.95 per bottle 1996 Lindemans Pyrus $59.95 per bottle 1992 Lindemans Pyrus $59.95 per bottle 1988 Lindemans Pyrus $69.95 per bottle 2006 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon "A died-in-the-wool classic Coonawarra cabernet, with both bouquet and palate exuding blackcurrant and blueberry fruit sustained and complexed by persistent but silky tannins and judicious use of French oak" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Epitome of Coonawarra cabernet" - The Wine Front, 93 points $49.95 per bottle 1998 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon "Very elegant and fine... a deep core of bright ripe dark berries and plums. Excellent silky texture, grainy tannins, fruit sweetness and intensity" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "The varietal character is clearly defined... tightly knit palate" - James Halliday, 94 points $64.95 per bottle 1996 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 94 points $64.95 per bottle 1995 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 94 points; James Halliday - 91 points $63.95 per bottle 1994 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 94 points $68.95 per bottle 1991 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 95 points; James Halliday - 93 points $74.95 per bottle 1988 Lindemans St George Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 93 points $74.95 per bottle 2009 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon "Very structured, with layers of black fruits... It's a real winner!!... 2009 is a textbook, definitive Coonawarra cabernet of concentration, structural poise and fine-tuned definition" - Tyson Stelzer, 95 points" - Paul Ippolito, 95 points ; "2009 is among the line's upper ranks... Essence of Coonawarra and essence of Australian cabernet. Rich with sweet blackcurrant... Packs a lot of flavour but all the screws are tight" - The Wine Front, 94+ points $32.95 per bottle 2005 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon Multiple Trophy Winner (including 'Best Cabernet in the World'); "Seductive and sumptuous cassis and blackcurrant fruit with ripe, silky tannins giving great mouthfeel" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Powerful, closed and brooding... its vibrant and concentrated expression of dark cherries, dark plums and cassis is long and youthful, firm and refined" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; "2005 is clearly a very strong vintage. The fruit has an extra degree of purity to it. This wine is spotless, generous, gorgeously curranty and yet lengthy and tannic... I love the elegance here" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "A big round ball of ripe Coonawarra fruit with rich creamy tannins and quite remarkable length of flavour... It's a winner" - Winorama, 93+ points; "A wine with finesse, structure and excellent mouthfeel" - Winestate ***** $42.95 per bottle 2004 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon Multiple Trophy Winner; "A blinder Cabernet" - Chris Shanahan; "A delicious wine, with an abundance of blackcurrant and cassis fruit... plenty of depth" - James Halliday, 95 points; "This is one of the best Cabernet Sauvignon's I have tasted this year. It has the two main things you look for... balance and drinkability" - Paul Ippolito, 94 points; "A terrific marriage of oak and frui... quite a lot of style, and it's gone into the bottle beautifully" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "A long, fine and elegant palate. Its intense and expressive blackberry and dark plum flavours are tightly knit" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; "On the palate rich and full bodied... It is a beautiful and deeply satisfying wine" - Winorama, 93 points $49.95 per bottle 2003 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon "Reach for the highlighter, get out the shopping list, this is one wine you've just gotta get your hands on... one of its most remarkable releases to date... Wow! Wow! Wow! Scintillating black currant fruit... a palate of glorious morello cherry acidity, very tight tannins and phenomenal length" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points; "Spotlessly clean; a fine, long, supple palate driven by fresh, cassis-accented fruit" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Step up to the plate, this is a goodun... I like it. I bought some" - The Wine Front, 92 points; "A classy wine, this is the best Cabernet at this price point that I can remember" - Ric Einstein $49.95 per bottle 2000 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon Multi Trophy winner (including Stoddart Trophy); "Complex. Terrifically integrated. Ripe blackberry and blackcurrant fruit... a terrifically aromatic wine. In the mouth it's poised and correctly positioned" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "A palate offering a mix of power and restraint" - James Halliday, 94 points; "These wines are a mind-blowing experience that every Australian wine lover should actively seek out... Intense black currants are the highlight... a structured, long palate" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points; "The 2000 was both richer and more concentrated (than the '98)... Yum! A seductive youthful wine, well composed and just needing time" - Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, Top 10 Australian Cabernet Sauvignons; "A rich and satisfying Coonawarra cabernet of generous proportions... No hurry at all. Delicious" - Winorama, 93 points $56.95 per bottle 1999 Majella Cabernet Sauvignon "The 1999 will rank among the longest-lived of them all, the cool vintage conditions lending a leafy element to its exciting red berry fruit. This is a wine of great length and very firm and tight tannins" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points; "One of Australia's classiest Cabernets... The 1999 is bright, juicy and beautifully focused" - Wine Spectator, 91 points (90-94 pts outstanding); "This is Coonawarra cabernet at its best, possessing all the hallmarks of quality and greatness... Rich blackcurrant and cassis characters permeate the palate, combining beautifully with the oak to produce a wonderfully rich, velvety texture" - Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine $59.95 per bottle 1999 Majella Malleea Tyson Stelzer - 94 points; James Halliday - 94 points $79.95 per bottle 2004 Mamre Brook Cabernet Sauvignon "A stunningly varietal and perfumed cabernet... fine and pristine palate... There's suppleness and softness about this stylish and exceptionally varietal wine" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; James Halliday - 94 points; "Stunning aromatics truly... . It slowly unwinds in the glass evolving all those typical Cabernet features with a long delicious finish" - Paul Ippolito, 93 points; The Wine Front - 91 points $29.95 per bottle 2002 Mamre Brook Cabernet Sauvignon "A superb Barossa cabernet of exceptional elegance and longevity... Tightly defined, smooth and harmonious, it bursts with intense cassis, blackberry and plum flavours, intertwined around a spine of fine, firm tannins. Excellent length and balance" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "This is one of the very few wines that I'd recommend that you buy more than a dozen bottles of" - The Wine Front, 93 points; Stoddart Trophy; "One of the best Mamre Brook cabernets to ever be created... dark, concentrated wine...Exceptional value" - Tyson Stelzer, 93 points $34.95 per bottle 2003 Mildara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 93 points; "Typically fine and stylish Coonawarra cabernet" - Jeremy Oliver, 92 points; "The length of finish of blackcurrant just lingers and lingers on the back palate and goes on and on" - Paul Ippolito; Tyson Stelzer - 91 points $29.95 per bottle 1998 Mildara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 93 points $49.95 per bottle 2007 Mills Reef Elspeth Hawkes Bay Cabernet Merlot TROPHY BEST CABERNET OR MERLOT/CABERNET BLEND - 2009 AIR NEW ZEALAND WINE AWARDS (judged across three outstanding vintages of 2005 to 2007); "The aristocrat of the red wine styles" - Judges Comments; "Very serious blended red... Layers of flavour reveal a wine of considerable power and complexity. Excellent cellaring potential" - Bob Campbell MW, 94 points $44.95 per bottle 1996 Mitchelton Preece Cabernet Sauvignon $19.95 per bottle 1994 Mitchelton Preece Cabernet Sauvignon $19.95 per bottle 1991 Mitchelton Preece Cabernet Sauvignon $21.50 per bottle 2002 Mitolo "Serpico" McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon Made in the tradition of Amarone; "A palate with excellent structure, mouthfeel and balance, those layered flavours again coming to the fore. Made in full-on Amarone style" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Great intensity, power, and richness in addition to surprisingly good balance... fascinating effort" - Robert Parker, 93 points; "Brooding, dense, complex, lingering... should develop slowly in bottle wonderfully for a decade or more" - Max Allen, $79.00 per bottle 1999 Moondah Brook Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 90 points $24.95 per bottle 2001 Moss Brothers Cabernet Merlot One of the very best from the great 2001 vintage in Margaret River $37.95 per bottle 1999 Moss Brothers Cabernet Merlot "An outstanding wine, with great balance... The richly textured and structured palate lives up to the bouquet in every way" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Virtual giant of a wine... Whenever you choose to pull the cork, order the best aged-beef your budget allows" - Bill Thompson; "It's fresh, audacious, smooth and alluring" - Philip White $59.95 per bottle 2008 Moss Wood Amy's Cabernet Sauvignon "Immaculate texture and structure is outstanding" - James Halliday, 96 points; "This delivers big-time on the elegance stakes and yet also is a vibrant youthful star of a red blend, that will develop into a real winner with a few years under its belt" - Paul Ippolito, 94 points $34.95 per bottle 2006 Moss Wood Amy's Cabernet Sauvignon $29.95 per bottle 2005 Moss Wood Amy's Cabernet Sauvignon Top 100 Wines (18.5/20 points) - Peter Forrestal; Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** Best Buy Wines Under $30; Mike Frost - 92 points; The Wine Front - 91 points; Epicure Uncorked ****(*) $39.95 per bottle 2008 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "From the very moment that this all-pervading wines was poured it transfixed my wife and me and we were powerless to refuse its divine right to a position in this 100. Is this the finest Moss Wood Cabernet ever? Yes" - Matthew Jukes, 100 Best Australian Wines 2010; The Wine Front - 92+ points; Keith Mugford, Vintage Rating 9/10 $89.95 per bottle 2007 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "07 is a very special vintage from this esteemed property. There is a nobility of flavour which underpins all of the expected grandeur and intensity of fruit, and the length and quality of tannins are a wonder to behold" - Matthew Jukes, 100 Best Australian Wines 2010; "The fruit quality is undeniable; multilayered with redcurrant providing highlights to the pure cassis fruit beneath... the silkiness of the tannins, and the suppleness of the fruit, promise a wonderful journey ahead... the length is quite simply staggering" - James Halliday, 93 points; Keith Mugford, Vintage Rating 10/10 $99.95 per bottle 2005 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "This is my idea of a beautiful red wine. It's an essay in elegance and harmony... It strikes a perfect balance between concentration and restraint, resulting in elegance and intensity" - Huon Hooke, 96 points; "This is a blinder... It has smooth texture and real length... One of the best Moss Wood cabernets I have consumed" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "Easily the best since the mighty 2001 vintage... A gorgeous smelling wine... In the mouth quiet authority and grace is the order of the day... Long and satisfying this is a wine of rare balance and significant ageing potential" - Winorama, 96 points; Ray Jordan - 96 points; "The density of Cabernet fruit in Moss Wood 2005 is truly staggering" - Matthew Jukes, 100 Best Australian Wines 2008; ""A classic, pure, autocratic portrayal of cabernet" - James Halliday, 95 points; "It's an absolute beauty... A wine of beautiful grace, balance and restraint... it's all here, the full gamut of quintessential Cabernet flavour and aroma... It has a storied and glorious life ahead of it" - Grant Dodd, 95 points; "It's one of the vineyard's finest. My heart says 2001 yet, in reality, the 2005 is at least as good" - Keith Mugford, Vintage Rating 10/10 $115.00 per bottle 2004 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "Palate is seamless and perfectly balanced with expertly woven oak. You will easily get 20-plus years out of this wine" - Ray Jordan, 96 points; "This already opulent, textured and delicious wine will reward even another 10 years cellaring" - Philip Rich Top 20 Wines of 2007; James Halliday - 95 points; "Long-termer. Impeccably balanced... Really classy wine" - The Wine Front, 94 points; Jeremy Oliver – 93 points; "Classy" - Epicure Uncorked *****; "It's ripe, soft and yummy" - Keith Mugford, Vintage Rating 9/10 $110.00 per bottle 2003 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "It's chocolatey and lush in dark-fruit cabernet flavours, while the structure is deep, dense and sumptuous. Cellar: 15+ years" - Huon Hooke, 97 points; "Luxuriantly smooth, this deeply fragrant, firmly structured, plush and seamless wine marries deep, ripe fruit with superb oak and tannin" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points; "Beautifully varietal, with excellent fruit concentration and balanced oak" - Gourmet Traveller Wine *****; "Long, flowing palate - the wine glides across the tongue to a firm, brilliantly balanced finish. Stylish, seductive and flaunting the sexiest tannins in Margaret River, the pedigree of the vineyard shines through. Yep, it's drop dead gorgeous " - Divine Magazine; Keith Mugford - Vintage Rating 9/10 $120.00 per bottle 2002 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "A fine-grained, more elegant and tightly knit cabernet than has been released under this label for some vintages" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "A beautiful, subtle, cool-year cabernet... ripe, intense and complete" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, 95 points *****; "A tightly-wound, black-currant-fruited cabernet of refinement and class" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points; "The length getting longer and longer and the flavours rounder and rounder. By the end of the bottle, I was stunned. Man, what a wine!" - Wine Without Wank, Outstanding Quality $120.00 per bottle 2001 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "Alluringly deep, complex perfume of pristine small dark berrie... Sumptuous, silky palate... its structure, power and integration stamp it as a significant wine, perhaps the finest Moss Wood ever" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "Fruit of ultimate, coiled purity, yet suggestive of complexity even in its extreme youth... In many ways, the perfect, varietal, young cabernet" - The Wine Front, 97 points; "A gorgeous, silky wine flooded with redcurrant, cassis and blackcurrant fruit in a web of fine tannins. Elegance personified and a screwcap guarantees a very long life" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2001, 96 points; "A bit like classy youthful Bordeaux - and the elegant palate was seamless, pristine, long and refined, with perfectly integrated, superfine tannins. Great!" - Epicure Uncorked, Wine of the Week *****; "Arguably the greatest wine yet released from the vineyard" - Keith Mugford, Vintage Rating 9/10 $195.000 per bottle 2000 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon "Its rich, voluptuous palate presents a plushness and opulence rare in Australian cabernet" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; Keith Mugford - Vintage Rating 9/10 $110.00 per bottle 1998 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon Halliday's Top 100 of 2001 - 94 points; "Thick, sweet fruit when it hits the palate followed by layers of explosive interest" - Jancis Robinson MW, 18.0 points $150.00 per bottle 1997 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon $135.00 per bottle 2003 Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Vineyard Cabernet Merlot "A generous and firmly structured cabernet... Long and supple, but overlying a fine-grained structure of genuine strength" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points $42.50 per bottle 2001 Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Vineyard Cabernet Merlot "Elegant, with great structure and mouthfeel" - James Halliday - 93 points; "Beautifully sweet Promite-like exotics, lifts the value of the pure swoon of blackcurrant flavour to a silken, seductive level. This is a delicious Margaret River cabernet merlo... Buy up - this wine, from this vintage, is one of the best value Margaret River cabernets on the market" - Winefront Monthly - 92 points; Jeremy Oliver – 92 points $47.95 per bottle 2000 Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Vineyard Cabernet Merlot "It's a brooding, rustic sleeper of a wine, and although I'd prefer less alcohol, it has polish and complexity" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points $44.95 per bottle 2008 Mount Mary Quintet $125.00 per bottle 2006 Mount Mary Quintet "A terrific wine of superb balance and focus... It finishes with exceptional length and tight-knit acidity" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "All about subtlety and finesse... has deceptive intensity and length" - James Halliday, 94 points $125.00 per bottle 2005 Mount Mary Quintet "Supremely elegant, stylish and focused, this aristocratic red... Sumptuously flavoured but silky-smooth... with an intensity that builds steadily towards its palate-staining finish" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points $125.00 per bottle 2004 Mount Mary Quintet "A top-drawer Mount Mary red... Beautifully controlled and contained, its silky and elegant palate conceals its ample power and strength" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "An elegant, stately red... Great flavour, line and balance on palate. Beautifully proportioned" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, 96 points *****; "A classic, understated Mount Mary style, beautiful fruit/oak/tannin balance; cassis and blackcurrant dominate, then silky tannins on a very long finish" - James Halliday, 95 points $145.00 per bottle 2003 Mount Mary Quintet "Smooth and silky, the palate is round and juicy, delivering a sumptuous expression of vibrant dark cherry and small berry fruit... It's polished and harmoniously balanced, and should develop impressive complexity with bottle-age" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points $130.00 per bottle 2002 Mount Mary Quintet "Very fine, elegant, cool-climate cabernet blend... Smooth and stylish, it's pristine and silky, presenting exceptional length and brightness of fruit" - Jeremy Oliver, 94 points $150.00 per bottle 2001 Mount Mary Quintet "Rich, smooth and seamless, almost opulent for a cabernet, it's wonderfully long, harmonious and stylish... For the cellar" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "Sweet, complex and sophisticated... At once quite suave and impressively concentrated... built to age" - Stephen Tanzer, 94+points $155.00 per bottle 2000 Mount Mary Quintet "It is the most exciting young cabernet blend I have ever tasted from Mount Mary... An essay in creamy vinous texture and restrained strength, its palate bursts with dark berry fruits... Perfectly ripe, sumptuous and firm... this benchmark Australian expression of the left bank Bordeaux blend is hard to lay hands on. If you're serious, you'll find a way" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points $195.00 per bottle 1999 Mount Mary Quintet "A deluxe, silky-smooth, supremely elegant and complete blend of red Bordeaux varieties of exceptional longevity... a profound core of pure cassis and small red berry fruit. Wonderfully balanced and deftly integrated, it's the complete package" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points $185.00 per bottle 1998 Mount Mary Quintet Jeremy Oliver – 97 points $200.00 per bottle 1997 Mount Mary Quintet Jeremy Oliver – 91 points $170.00 per bottle 2000 Murdock Cabernet Sauvignon "When first tasted I wrote will become a classic in time, but didn't dream it would emerge so magnificently. It delivers a sensuous cascade of luscious, ripe blackcurrant fruit around a base of perfect tannins and quality French oak. Gloriously mouthfilling" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2005, 97 points; "Here's a dark, glowing, concentrated Coonawarra built unashamedly for the long haul" - Philip White, 93 points; "Great vintage. Beautiful wine... It's real wine. It's lovely" - The Wine Front, 92 points; "Elegant, finely built cabernet is classically streamlined, modest in alcohol and has the structure to age superbly over 20 years" - Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** $54.95 per bottle 1999 Murdock Cabernet Sauvignon "From vines now approaching 30 years old... fine and long-flavoured, with just-enough sweet-fruit character and just-enough elegant, elongated structure to set it as a perfect cellaring proposition... in seven or eight years it's going to be gorgeous" - The Wine Front, 94 points; James Halliday - 94 points; "The cabernets put out so far have been spectacular... an absolutely classical Coonawarra cabernet personality" - Epicure Uncorked *****; Sydney international Wine Competition - Double Gold $49.95 per bottle 2002 Neagles Rock Cabernet Sauvignon "Abundant black current/blackberry/mulberry fruit sweeps through the length of the palate... Great value" - James Halliday, 93 points; "This is classy stuff" - Huon Hooke; "The palate carries lush depths of fruit... delicious fruit swetness" - Epicure Uncorked ***** ; "Powerful sweet, fleshy, perfumed varietal fruit palate... great length and firm ripe tannins" - Winestate ***** $29.95 per bottle 2009 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a monster of a wine... will be long lived" - Drew Noon $75.00 per bottle 2005 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "A sumptuous, savory, opulent, full-bodied wine which amazingly combines great power with elegance. Although there is plenty of structure and aging potential, the wine is seamless, sexy, and very enticing" - Wine Advocate, 97 points $90.00 per bottle 2004 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "This remarkable Cabernet tastes like a Pauillac on steroids... an exceptionally full-bodied, precise, fresh, and long wine with a finish that lasts nearly a minute. A truly profound Cabernet Sauvignon" - Robert Parker, 96 points $85.00 per bottle 2003 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "Perhaps the finest Cabernet Sauvignon made in Australia... a classic Cabernet with riveting levels of creme de cassis and graphite characteristics. Full-bodied and deep, with superb balance, high but sweet tannin, fabulous concentration, and a long 60 plus second finish, this is stunning Cabernet Sauvignon from 33-year-old vines" - Robert Parker, 98 points; "This is a marvellous wine in its style... Great softness. Great purity. Great concentration" - The Wine Front, 93 points $110.00 per bottle 2002 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "The complex aromatics are followed by a full-bodied wine of compelling purity and nobleness with layers of concentration as well as intensity. One of the most prodigious Australian Cabernet Sauvignons ever made" - Robert Parker, 96 points $130.00 per bottle 2000 Noon Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a great effort displaying first-growth quality... This full-bodied Cabernet builds incrementally in the mouth. The finish lasts for 45 seconds. A magnificent example, its seamlessness and concentration are profound" - Robert Parker, 95 points $115.00 per bottle 2002 O'Leary Walker Cabernet Merlot "Brimming with ripe fruit" - James Halliday, 91 points $21.50 per bottle 2000 O'Leary Walker Cabernet Merlot "Lovely balance, weight and structure... A benchmark example" - Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** $21.50 per bottle 2006 O'Leary Walker Cabernet Sauvignon "Rich, juicy blackcurrant fruit aromas are repeated on the medium-bodied palate, perfectly supported by ripe tannins, quality French oak completing the picture" - James Halliday Top 100 of 2008, 95 points; "It's very cute, clean, modern wine that will settle beautifully with five or six years cellar" - Philip White, 91++ points $19.95 per bottle 1999 Orlando Jacobs Creek Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Drinking beautifully $19.95 per bottle 2004 Orlando St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon "The classic 2004 vintage has delivered an exemplary cabernet suited to long-term cellaring... deep and penetrative flavour... Long and smooth, it's finely shaped and balanced, delivering succulent dark fruit" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "Thought it was outstanding... Reserve, character, and structure... A classical Coonawarra cabernet" - The Wine Front, 93 points; Gourmet Traveller Wine *****; "Coonawarra cabernet at its very best" - Jeff Gordon, Best Wines for 2007 over $20; "Finishes long and fresh. This is a wine that shows elegance and restraint" - Winorama, 91 points $49.50 per bottle 1998 Orlando St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon "A quite delicious palate, with excellent structure... Winner of the coveted Montgomery Trophy at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2000" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2001, 95 points; "Classic cellaring Coonawarra cabernet. Sumptuous, long and creamy... a beautifully constructed palate of significant weight and balance. Deep flavours of plums, cassis and mulberry fruit last long" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points $65.00 per bottle 2004 Parker Estate First Growth Cabernet Blend "First class. Brilliant wine. Richly fruited, gloriously structured, long and firm and potent. A powerhouse of sophisticated control, the dark fruit authoratitive and the oak masterfully entwined" - The Wine Front, 95 points; "Richly fruited and lavishly oaked... full bodied and enormously concentrated... An essence of Cabernet experience at present but I'll wager this will cellar magnificently" - Winorama, 94+ points $84.95 per bottle 2004 Parker Estate Terra Rossa Cabernet Sauvignon "Intense blackberry, plum and cassis-like fruit is handsomely backed by fine-grained oak, finishing with tightness and focus" - Jeremy Oliver, 94 points; "A tight, classic cabernet" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Classic Coonawarra. Beautifully structured, made to age... A complete package. Very good wine" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "Great structure and control" - Ray Jordan, 12 Best Wines; "The wine just explodes with vibrant blackberry and blackcurrant fruit... Time is all it needs" - Jane Faulkners $36.95 per bottle 2008 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz "An aristocratic wine that carries on the dynasty of the even-numbered vintage reign of 389, the king of the Bins... That classic 389 backbone of steely, firm, fine tannins will ensure it holds the throne for decades" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points; "Excellent cellaring potential" - James Halliday, 95 points; "It's rich and ripe with grunty tannin laid on thick delivering a classic 389 mouthful of fruit... has the requisite fruit power and structure to see it age well for decades... An excellent 389" - The Wine Front, 94+ points $49.50 per bottle 2007 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz James Halliday - 94 points; "Played well, done good. Top result" - The Wine Front, 93 points $54.95 per bottle 2006 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz "An intense and complex wine of great breed" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Fantastic attack of flavour, grip through the finish, balance and harmony. Complete Australian red wine" - The Wine Front, 95 points; Grant Dodd - 94 points $56.95 per bottle 2005 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz "The best since the 1996. It's a wine of immense structured power... A classic in the making" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "A great wine" - Winorama, 96 points; Jeremy Oliver - 95 points; "Voluptuous black fruits... rippling velvety tannins" - James Halliday, 95 points $59.50 per bottle 2002 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz James Halliday - 94 points; Jeremy Oliver - 93 points; Paul Ippolito - 93 points; The Age Epicure ***** $65.00 per bottle 1998 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz Jeremy Oliver - 96 points; "A great 389" - Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide; James Halliday - 94 points $100.00 per bottle 2008 Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon "Never in the history of Bin 407 has a cabernet of such desk-thumping precision been let loose... Tannin engineering is of NASA precision, oak balance is impeccable and that lingering, crunchy red- and blackcurrant finish is haunting. Buy fast, drink slow" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points; "It all feels seamless and integrated... If I tasted this in a wine show I'd plonk a gold medal on its head in a heartbeat" - The Wine Front, 94+ points; James Halliday - 94 points $44.50 per bottle 2006 Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon "Length and depth all bang on. Fabulous wine. Emphatic approval" - Gary Walsh, 94 points; "Real length too, and real potential" - Campbell Mattinson, 93 points $49.50 per bottle 2004 Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver – 94 points; "Absolutely classic cabernet" - James Halliday, 94 points; Winorama - 94+ points; Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** $54.95 per bottle 1998 Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 94 points $65.00 per bottle 2004 Penfolds Bin 60A Cabernet Shiraz "This brilliant wine actually delivers on the stellar expectations encouraged by its label. When it really opens up, it will be something to behold. And to drink... Perfectly structured and balanced, this is a very great wine" - Jeremy Oliver, 98 points; "Already taking on the colours and texture of a sumptuous tapestry... Perfectly structured and balanced, this is a very great wine" - James Halliday ; "Seemingly the 2004 has every bit as much potential as the 1962" - Robert Parker, 96 points $625.00 per bottle 2008 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon "The blackcurrant and cassis palate is a seamless extension of the bouquet, with extreme length and such impeccable balance it hovers on the edge of outright elegance" - James Halliday, 97 points; "In the grand scheme of international cabernet, 707 is the bargain of this release... formidable power yet consummate control... Surging, looming, exact" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points; "It's a sumptuous, 40-year wine and as good a young 707 as I can recall" - Huon Hooke, 96 points; "Immensely complex" - Nick Stock, 96 points; "The palate is big, firm and confident. Oodles of eucalypt, blackurrant, cedary/smoky/clovey oak and sweet red liquorice" - The Wine Front, 95 points $245.00 per bottle 2004 Penfolds Block 42 Kalimna Cabernet Sauvignon The oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world; "As close to perfection as a warm climate cabernet will ever become... A brilliant exercise in strength and control" - Jeremy Oliver, 98 points; "The best straight Cabernet Australia has ever made... impeccably balanced, nuanced and tremendously long and pure" - Wine Spectator, 97 points; "Points are meaningless" - James Halliday, (97-100) points; Robert Parker - (94-96) points $695.00 per bottle 2005 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Cabernet Sauvignon $15.95 per bottle 2005 Penley Estate Phoenix Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 93 points $23.95 per bottle 2004 Penley Estate Phoenix Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 94 points; Jeremy Oliver – 91 points; Top 10 Value Wines - Gourmet Traveller Wine; Winestate ***** $25.95 per bottle 2003 Penley Estate Phoenix Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 90 points $24.50 per bottle 2002 Penley Estate Phoenix Cabernet Sauvignon $27.50 per bottle 2000 Penley Estate Phoenix Cabernet Sauvignon BEST WINE OF SHOW - Boutique Wine Show; BEST WINE OF SHOW - Cairns Wine Show; "Big rich flavoursome palate. Has character, depth and length. Put this one away for a while" - Winestate *****; "Great cabernet..." - Huon Hooke; The Wine Front - 92 points $32.50 per bottle 2001 Petaluma Coonawarra "Very classy, structured red of typical strength and longevity" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "It's got length and style and, gain, it's pretty damn good" - The Wine Front, 93 points $52.95 per bottle 2000 Petaluma Coonawarra "Supple, round, medium-bodied palate again showing impeccable balance and integration of fruit and oak. Iron glove, velvet fist" - Halliday's Top 100 of 2002, 95 points; Jeremy Oliver - 94 points $62.95 per bottle 1998 Petaluma Coonawarra "Show-stopping red of contradictory raw power and refinemen... Densely packed with perfectly ripened fruit, it's massively structured but perfectly balanced" - Jeremy Oliver, 98 points; "Even Brian Croser must be quietly ecstatic over this wine, surely the best Petaluma yet. The epitome of elegance... the palate silky smooth and supple" - James Halliday, 97 points; "Wines like this define great vintages" - Tyson Stelzer, 94 points $79.95 per bottle 2001 Peter Lehmann Mentor James Halliday - 94 points; Jeremy Oliver – 88 points $39.95 per bottle 2007 Picardy Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc A delicious wine, made very much in the style of the Merlot dominant St Emilion/Pomerol wines; all about elegance and refinement; "A fleshy, soft elegantly weighted wine with pristine cassis fruit... seamless dark-fruit flavours" - Huon Hooke, 94 points *****; "A most attractive and fragrant wine with fresh cassis notes giving a juicy cast to the palate" - James Halliday, 94 points $27.95 per bottle 2003 Picardy Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc "Attractive cassis, blackberry and cedar mix; very good balance and mouthfeel" - James Halliday, 94 points $34.95 per bottle 1999 Plantagenet Mount Barker Cabernet Sauvignon Gavin Berry 's favourite; James Halliday - 92 points $44.95 per bottle 2006 Punters Corner Cabernet Sauvignon "Oh-so-correct Coonawarra cabernet... This is a past-the-post winner" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Voluptuous blackberry and blackcurrant fruit... Lovely texture in the mouth... Super" - Gourmet Traveller Wine $24.95 per bottle 1998 Punters Corner Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 90 points; Jeremy Oliver - 90 points $39.95 per bottle 2006 Redbank Sally's Paddock Red Blend (375ml) "The star for me was the 2006 Redbank Sally's PaddockWHICH WAS SUBLIME, AND AS CLOSE TO PERFECTION AS A WINE CAN BE" - Anthony D'Anna; "Shows its pedigree" - James Halliday, 93 points; "A lovely wine that is sure to please" - Neil Robb $35.00 per bottle 2000 Redbank Sally's Paddock Red Blend "Challenging the magnificent 91 vintage" - Neil Robb; Jeremy Oliver – 93 points $69.95 per bottle 1999 Redbank Sally's Paddock Red Blend James Halliday - 89 points; Jeremy Oliver – 88 points $56.95 per bottle 2001 Red Edge Heathcote Cabernet Sauvignon Cult wine; "Blackberry fruit on entry floods the mouth" - James Halliday, 93 points $54.95 per bottle 2002 Redesdale Estate Cabernets Stunning Heathcote wine; James Halliday - 93 points $46.95 per bottle 2004 Rockford Rifle Range Cabernet Sauvignon Winorama - 93 points $57.00 per bottle 2002 Rockford Rifle Range Cabernet Sauvignon "This is a stunner..." - The Wine Front, 94 points; Tyson Stelzer - 92 points $65.00 per bottle 1998 Rockford Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver - 94 points $85.00 per bottle 2004 Rymill Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon "Absolute cabernet" - The Wine Front, 92 points; "A wine of considerable finesse and style" - Winorama, 92 points; Paddy Kendler ***** $24.95 per bottle 2005 Shingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 JIMMY WATSON TROPHY WINNER; "Great balance and concentration with a long life ahead" - Decanter; "Floods the mouth with intense blackcurrant varietal fruit" - James Halliday, 93 points $59.95 per bottle 2001 Smithbrook Naked Grape Cabernet Merlot Gourmet Traveller Wine ***** $19.95 per bottle 2006 Squitchy Lane Yarra Valley Cabernets A simply delicious cabernet blend from 25 year old vines in the Yarra Valley. An elegantly structured palate with gentle, sweet cassis fruit and soft, fine tannins. $29.95 per bottle 2007 Stella Bella Cabernet Merlot RED BLEND OF THE YEAR - The Big Red Wine Book 2010/2011; "Precise, beautifully structured... very good line, length and balance" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Fabulous. Seems to flood flavours into every corner of your mouth... A bloody good wine all over" - Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, 96 Points $26.95 per bottle 2006 St Huberts Cabernet Sauvignon Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front - 91 points; James Halliday - 91 points $32.95 per bottle 2000 Tatachilla McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon "Nice wine" - James Halliday, 90 points; Winestate, Best of 2002 ***** $25.95 per bottle 1999 Tatachilla McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon Winestate ***** $29.50 per bottle 1997 Tatachilla McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon "Full-bodied wine with lots of depth to the fruit" - James Halliday, 92 points $31.50 per bottle 1998 Tatachilla Padthaway Cabernet Sauvignon "Very rich, very impressive wine", "A beautiful wine and a great wine with the dish" - Top 100 of 2000 Sydney International Wine Competition; Jeremy Oliver - 90 points $25.95 per bottle 2000 Tatachilla Partners Cabernet Shiraz $14.99 per bottle 1998 Tatachilla Partners Cabernet Shiraz Jeremy Oliver - 89 points $17.99 per bottle 2001 Temple Bruer Cabernet Merlot (Organically Grown) $19.95 per bottle 2009 Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot "Just when you thought you've tried the best Awatea (2007), comes this exceptional 2009 wine... pristine and structured with graceful power" - Sam Kim, 95 points; "Beautifully lush and juicy, sweetly ripe fruit underscored by serious, powdery tannin extraction. A wine that needs time to blossom, this will live 7-10+ years easily" - Raymond Chan, 19.0 points out of 20; "Lovely big cassis and plum fruit flavours... Clearly a great vintage for Awatea" - Bob Campbell MW, 95 points $39.95 per bottle 2007 Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot "The concentration and tannin structure are classical, and the wine's elegance is highlighted by the extremely long finish. Outstanding for its poise between full ripeness and finesse, this will age effortlessly over the next two decades" - Raymond Chan, 19.0- points out of 20; "Brilliant... It tastes long, lean, balanced and perfectly right, everything in its right place. Beautiful wine" - Andrew Graham, 18.7 points out of 20; "Scarcely distinguishable from 2007 Coleraine. This is the sweetest, ripest and finest Awatea in years, maybe ever... in terms of pinpoint cassis character, florality, and Bordeaux styling, this is a lovely wine... VALUE" - Geoff Kelly, 18.5 points out of 20 *****; Nick Stock - 93 points; "Probably the best Awatea yet - certainly the best I can recall... superbly ripe fruit flavours" - Huon Hooke; "An impressive Hawkes Bay red that could challenge even the Coleraine" - Sue Courtney $45.95 per bottle 2007 Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot (375ml) "The concentration and tannin structure are classical, and the wine's elegance is highlighted by the extremely long finish. Outstanding for its poise between full ripeness and finesse, this will age effortlessly over the next two decades" - Raymond Chan, 19.0- points out of 20; "Brilliant... It tastes long, lean, balanced and perfectly right, everything in its right place. Beautiful wine" - Andrew Graham, 18.7 points out of 20; "Scarcely distinguishable from 2007 Coleraine. This is the sweetest, ripest and finest Awatea in years, maybe ever... in terms of pinpoint cassis character, florality, and Bordeaux styling, this is a lovely wine... VALUE" - Geoff Kelly, 18.5 points out of 20 *****; Nick Stock - 93 points; "Probably the best Awatea yet - certainly the best I can recall... superbly ripe fruit flavours" - Huon Hooke; "An impressive Hawkes Bay red that could challenge even the Coleraine" - Sue Courtney $29.95 per bottle 2009 Te Mata Coleraine Cabernet Merlot "A restrained beauty, perfectly poised and supremely discreet. It's youthful yet gloriously complex. A wine of great presence and definition... the greatest New Zealand wine ever made" - Sam Kim, 98 points; "Dense, powerful red with classic Cabernet Sauvignon characters dominating... Will age magnificently. Coleraine doesn't get much better than this" - Bob Campbell MW, 97 points; "The palate features sweet, rich, near exotic red and black fruits on a very powerful, concentrated, highly extracted framework... The finish is long and nuanced" - Raymond Chan, 19.5 points out of 20 $69.95 per bottle 2007 Te Mata Coleraine Cabernet Merlot "A majestic, massive wine... The palate combines great richness and concentration of fruit with immense extraction in extraordinary balance and style... Brooding and primary, it will cellar 10-15+ years" - Raymond Chan, 19.5+ points out of 20; "Giving depth new meaning, this dry, powerful red is, quite simply, a stunning wine;... Ultimately, its a muscular, beautiful, near perfect Bordeaux blend... Just buy some. All cool climate Cabernet fans should" - Andrew Graham, 19.0 points out of 20; "The Margaux analogy is even more apposite here. They show exactly why British winewriters increasingly say the best Hawkes Bay cabernet / merlot is the closest competitor Bordeaux has... it is the best Coleraine ever, I think. ... VALUE" - Geoff Kelly, 19.0 points out of 20 ***** $79.95 per bottle 2006 Thorn-Clarke Shotfire Ridge Quartage "An excellent red" - Huon Hooke, 94 points & Wine of the Week; "An excellent follow up to the 2005 and perhaps even better given a little more time in bottle" - Winorama, 92+ points; Paddy Kendler ***** $21.95 per bottle 2005 Thorn-Clarke Shotfire Ridge Quartage BEST WINE AT 2006 HOBART INTERNATIONAL WINE SHOW; James Halliday - 94 points; Tim White - 93 points; "Super wine. Smooth, seductive and very winning" - Winorama, 93 points; "layers of delicious flavour" - New Zealand Wine Show, Gold Medal $22.50 per bottle 2004 Thorn-Clarke Shotfire Ridge Quartage Multiple Trophy Winner, BEST WINE AT ROYAL ADELAIDE WINE SHOW; Gourmet Traveller Wine - 96 points ***** ; James Halliday - 94 points; Nick Stock – 93 points; The Wine Front - 92 points; Jeremy Oliver – 90 points; "A giant killer" - Max Allen $24.95 per bottle 2002 Thorn-Clarke Shotfire Ridge Quartage "... astonishingly pure, riveting wine" - Robert Parker - 94 points; "Top Aussie red"- Huon Hooke; Jeremy Oliver – 90 points $26.95 per bottle 2007 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon TROPHY FOR BEST CABERNET SAUVIGNON - 2009 Perth Royal Wine Show; James Halliday - 95 points; "Right up my alley... Buy some" - Andrew Graham, 18.5 points out of 20; Jeremy Oliver - 91 points $39.95 per bottle 2004 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon "A very good, elegant and fully ripened cabernet... Supple, fine and stylish, it's quite full in weight, deeply flavoured with a lingering core of blackberry and mulberry flavour... Fine balance and potential" - Jeremy Oliver, 93 points; James Halliday - 93 points; The Wine Front - 91 points $45.50 per bottle 1999 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon Top 20 cabernets in Australia - Gourmet Traveller Wine; "Wow!" - The Wine Front $57.50 per bottle 2007 Vasse Felix Heytesbury Cabernet Blend "The finish is long, succulent and thoroughly mesmerising" - James Halliday, 96 points; "It's full bodied with abundant sweet fruit... Lovely tussle between restraint and power on show here" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "This is simply awesome... a real statement of the Margaret River red at its finest" - Ray Jordan, 96 points; "Impressively taut structure and definition... a very impressive Cabernet that will age magnificently for decades" - Tyson Stelzer, 95 points $69.95 per bottle 2005 Vasse Felix Heytesbury Cabernet Blend "Full bodied and flooded with ripe cassis and cherry fruit... a wine of considerable impact, depth and drama... A wine that resonates in the memory long after tasting" - The Wine Front, 96 points; "Tightly focused and structured" - James Halliday, 95 points $69.95 per bottle 2007 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "Proclaims its class from the first whiff of blackcurrant and cedar, the powerful but perfectly balanced palate strongly evocative of Bordeaux" - James Halliday, 96 points; "It has all the grunt and power of the vintage with its wall of flavour, spread of firm ripe tannin and long marzipan accented finish... It's going to cellar for a very long time too" - The Wine Front, 95+ points; "Believe the hype. It's a riper year Voyager, but everything about it screams class... Classic wine this, classic indeed" - Andrew Graham, 95 points $49.95 per bottle 2005 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "Set in the context of the six preceding vintages, this wine had developed an extra degree of polish and finesse... the line, length and balance are impeccable" - James Halliday, 96 points; "It's another pearler: just such a seamless red... a stunningly pure drop of red-wine goodness" - The Big Red Wine Book, 96 points; "An outstanding wine... Loads of red and black fruit flavours in the mouth... The palate is long and seamless. Very elegant stuff" - Gourmet Traveller Wine, 96 points; "Very stylish and composed... Top class" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "The best buy yet: riotously perfumed, succulent, opulent, and impeccable balance" - Ray Jordan $49.95 per bottle 2004 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "2004 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot is the best red wine made at this estate" - Cliff Royal (winemaker); "A powerful bouquet and even more powerful palate, with layers of blackcurrant and cassis" - James Halliday Top 100 for 2008, 96 points; "This is an especially good one" - Campbell Mattinson, 95 points; "So utterly beguiling and downright delicious that I can't stop drinking it... in a word, outstanding" - Jane Faulkner; "A benchmark MR cabernet" - Tyson Stelzer, 95 points $59.95 per bottle 2003 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "Long and sumptuous" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points; Winorama - 96 points; James Halliday - 95 points; Tim White - 94 (95) points; "The long, firm palate is very impressive and perfectly balanced" - Winewise, Outstanding; The Wine Front, 93 points $64.95 per bottle 2001 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "Superbly balanced and revealing exceptional length of flavour" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "This is a superb wine" - Australian Financial Review, Top 20 Wines of 2005; Trophy at the Margaret River Wine Show 2004 - 57 points out of 60 (an unheard of result); "If you like true Margaret River cabernet then this is an essential purchase... This is the best red Cliff Royle has yet released" - Campbell Mattinson, 94 points; "It's very concentrated but also elegant and beautifully structured" - Huon Hooke $79.95 per bottle 1998 Voyager Estate Cabernet Merlot "It's a de luxe, sumptuous Bordeaux blend with a complete, complex structure based around perfectly ripened dark berry and plum fruit... Wonderfully long, balanced and savoury, it will live for decades" - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points; "The elegant and harmonious palate has superbly balanced and integrated fruit" - James Halliday, 96 points $95.00 per bottle 2009 Voyager Estate Girt By Sea Cabernet Merlot "Shows the effortlessness Marrgaret River can string a Cabernet Merlot together... Plenty of punch, freshness and balance" - Nick Stock, 92 points; "Lovely smooth angular palate packing a punch" - Ray Jordan, 92 points; "Abounds in nature's gifts of tobacco, capsicum and blackcurrant. In joyful strains then let us drink! " - Tyson Stelzer, 92 points; "A tangy cabernet that's well-made and well-priced" - Ralph Kyte-Powell ****(*) $18.95 per bottle 2008 Voyager Estate Girt By Sea Cabernet Merlot "The opulent cabernet flavour is supported by an excellent structure" - Winewise; "The palate is incredibly fresh and vibran" - James Halliday, 92 points; "The bargain buy: ripe, fleshy, blackcurrant flavours, juicy and silky smooth" - Peter Forrestal; "There is a real fruit intensity and underlying power. All round the structure and weight is excellent. Great drinking value" - Ray Jordan, 92 points; "Stylish and poised" - Kerry Skinner; "The palate is ripe and succulent, with cabernet austerity to give it tang" - Ralph Kyte-Powell ****(*) $19.95 per bottle 2005 Voyager Estate Girt By Sea Cabernet Merlot James Halliday - 94 points; Winorama - 91+ points; The Wine Front - 90 points; Gourmet Traveller Wine - **** 90 points $24.95 per bottle 2008 Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Merlot Nothing short of sensational - it is perhaps the best Australian cabernet based wine that I have tasted... all about finesse and elegance; "Giddy up! Yarra Valley cabernet reaches new altitudes of refinement, varietal precision, seamless balance and sheer class! Glorious fragrance of violets and every cabernet descriptor you can name. Beautifully textured tannins weave deep through waves of blackcurrant fruit" - Tyson Stelzer, 96 points; "Simply a beautiful wine, exuding elegance and regional style... it's long and silky, supple and fine-grained. Its intense, pristine and almost sour-edged fruit moves seamlessly down the surprisingly firm palate, finishing with wonderful brightness and length. Certain to age gracefully" - Jeremy Oliver, 95 points; "Deep and alluring, and is full bodied, elegant and smoothly textured. There's an abundance of very fine-grained, soft tannins and its seamlessness gives it a very natural feel" - Huon Hooke, 95 points *****; "Has a plush richness to the cassis and blackcurrant fruit flavours that is very attractive... one of the best examples of this wine for many years" - James Halliday, 95 points; "But it was the 2008 Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet that really grabbed me... its sense of both balance and style is exceptional. It has length, ripe tannins, refreshing acidity and class" - Gourmet Traveller Wine; "Seamless flow across the palate, it meanders through fine, soft tannins into a long, tangy aftertaste" - Ralph Kyte-Powell, Wine of the Week; "Superbly well balanced and beautifully ripe... Nothing feels forced or out of place; it's an harmonious wine... this wine is beautiful" - The Wine Front, 94 points $67.50 per bottle 2004 Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Merlot "A deep and alluring cabernet blend that will only become more seductive over the next two decades... Exceptionally elegant and finely crafted, its pristine flavours of dark cherries, blackberries, cassis and dark plums are tightly knit with oak and framed by silky tannins, finishing long and seamless. An artisan's wine of poise and sensitivity" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points $79.95 per bottle 1993 Wantirna Estate Cabernet Merlot $110.00 per bottle 1992 Wantirna Estate Cabernet Merlot $110.00 per bottle 1991 Wantirna Estate Cabernet Merlot $110.00 per bottle 1990 Wantirna Estate Cabernet Merlot $110.00 per bottle 2002 Water Wheel Cabernet Sauvignon Courier Mail - 91 points; Paddy Kendler ****; James Halliday - 88 points $21.95 per bottle 2005 Witchmount Estate Cabernet Sauvignon $25.50 per bottle 2007 Woodlands Margaret Reserve Cabernet Merlot "A long-term classic, with finely honed power and exceptional balance... offering a tightly controlled measure of voluptuous depth and expression rare in Australian cabernet" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "Its so perfect and pure and awesome... Buy it right now" - Andrew Graham, 19.0 out of 20 points; "Is truly worth hunting down" - Philip Rich; "We consider our 2007 'Margaret' to be our best yet" - Winery Notes $36.95 per bottle 2006 Wynns Alex 88 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon "Wonderful cedar and blackberry fruit: classy and perfectly ripened... Excellent!" - Huon Hooke, 95 points *****; "An unabashed full-bodied cabernet... full of dark, savoury back fruits embraced by perfect tannins giving structure and quality oak to conclude... The wine really imposes itself on the palate, with great fluency and drive" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Wonderfully dense and concentrated yet elegant palate... It's beautifully balanced, harmonious and somehow quite feminine too" - Australian Wine Journal, 94 points; The Wine Front - 94 points; "And an impressive debut may I say. The velvety seamless ripe rich character of the fruit is evident from the first pour" - Paul Ippolito, 93 points $49.95 per bottle 2008 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "A beautifully thick tannic texture that rolls through the mouth gently... It's a fulsome ripe year Coonawarra... A Monty for the cellar" - The Wine Front, 94+ points; "It is rich and luscious" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Rich voluminous wine with deep-set cassis fruit, chocolaty dense tannins and plentiful new oak. Still elemental, and tannic, but not a monster. This epitomises Coonawarra" - Andrew Caillard MW, 94 points $23.95 per bottle 2006 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Serious wine" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Gee, this is a delicious wine and one of the best-value quality-driven cabernets around" - Jane Faulkner; Winorama - 93 points; "This classically proportioned wine will cellar beautifully and bring great pleasure to the patient over the next couple of decades" - Grant Dodd, 92+ points $29.95 per bottle 2004 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "The wine has considerable length and finesse, and will be long-lived" - James Halliday, 94 points; "Its smooth, restrained and supple palate of vibrant fruit overlies a wonderfully tight spine" - Jeremy Oliver - 93 points; Ray Jordan - 12 Best Wines $25-$40; Winorama - 92 points; The Wine Front - 91 points $34.95 per bottle 1998 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon "Every bit as good as the vintage reputation would suggest" - James Halliday, 94 points; Jeremy Oliver - 91 points $47.95 per bottle 2008 Wynns Davis Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon "Simply a brilliant Coonawarra cabernet... Its plush, sweetly fruited but finely honed palate seamlessly integrates bright, vibrant and profoundly layered flavours with superb oak... a wine for the ages, finishing with depth and charm" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "This wine immediately stamps its authority, no surprise given that the cabernet vines were planted in 1957... Its surging blackcurrant fruit is supported by tannins and French oak in perfect balance" - James Halliday, 96 points; "An opulent and powerful cabernet, combining black olive and cassis varietal flavours with a particularly juicy, ripe, supple mid palate and powerful but soft tannins - opulence and elegance combined. An outstanding and potentially long-lived wine" - Chris Shanahan; "Lovely smooth cassis/ chocolate flavours... tremendous buoyancy of fruit. Very concentrated, dense plush, evenly distributed wine. Lovely" - Andrew Caillard MW, 94 points $46.95 per bottle 2007 Wynns Glengyle Cabernet Sauvignon "Very concentrated fruit that comes through strongly on the fruit-laden palate that also has wonderful texture, structure and length" - James Halliday, 95 points; "Liked this plenty" - The Wine Front, 93 points; "There is elegance and subtle detail rather than brute force... It's an exciting wine" - Huon Hooke; "Dense, gently ripe blackcurrant flavours, supple, smooth texture and fine, integrated tannins: all admirably balanced" - Peter Forrestal $39.95 per bottle 2008 Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon "Gorgeous wine. Dense elderberry/dark plum, juicy fruit flavours, supple sweet tannins, layers of dense fruit... Finishes long and sweet. Immensely concentrated but minerally. Percussion and vinosity" - Andrew Caillard MW, 98 points; "I never expected a young John Riddoch to be elegant and silky, but this is, its intense blackcurrant and cassis fruit caressing the mouth and drawing out the saliva" - James Halliday, 97 points; "A deep and brooding wine in which the cabernet fruit and oak really sing in harmony. This is a great cabernet" - Chris Shanahan; "2008 is reticent lurking, with deep black fruits, powerful concentration and oak integration that defines the modern era of JR. Excellent palate completeness, length and line, bringing calm control to its power" - Tyson Stelzer, 95 points $87.50 per bottle 2004 Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon "Deep, dark and ruby; perfumed, wild and floral. Deep layers of cassis, violets, mulberries and blackberries... Long, smooth and brightly lit, it finishes with great finesse and balance. Very polished indeed" - Jeremy Oliver, 97 points; "Richness in terms of the multi-layered texture... then complexity in the multifaceted nuances of different levels of ripenessin the cabernet sauvignon; harmony in length and sheer class on the finish" - James Halliday, 96 points; "The craftsmanship of this wine is exceptional... a wonderfully concentrated wine that has a seamless structure and a flawless complexion. It is simply perfect" - Toni Paterson MW, 10 Top Drops $90.00 per bottle 2003 Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon "Classic cassis and blackcurrant fruit in abundance, yet not going over the top. A beautiful wine" - James Halliday, 96 points; Jeremy Oliver - 93 points $90.00 per bottle 1996 Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon "The palate is immensely powerful and concentrated, precisely as one would expect from Riddoch in a vintage such as '96" - James Halliday, 96 points; Jeremy Oliver - 95 points $95.00 per bottle 1994 Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon "A powerful mature palate, arguably the most classic for many years. There is layer-upon-layer of fruit flavour perfectly matched by vanillin oak, and supported by long, lingering tannins. A multiple trophy and gold medal winner at major Australian wine shows" - James Halliday, 96 points; Jeremy Oliver - 95 points $95.00 per bottle 2005 Wynns Messenger Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon "A powerful wine, with considerable depth and structure" - James Halliday, 96 points; "Quite beautiful" - The Wine Front, 95 points; "Highly impressive wine. Huge potential" - Grant Dodd, 94+ points; "A wine buff's Cabernet" - Paul Ippolito, 93 points $45.00 per bottle 2008 Wynns V&A Lane Cabernet Shiraz "Excellent texture and structure, especially meritorious given the modest alcohol; a very elegant style with a long future" - James Halliday, 96 points; "It's a wine to be proud of" - The Wine Front, 95 points $36.95 per bottle 2005 Xanadu Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon "Just to make it perfectly clear, this comes with my emphatic approval in all departments - value, quality, style etc... A delightful wine of considerable grace and sophistication" - Winorama, 92 points; "Classic Margaret River cabernet" - James Halliday, 92 points; "Masses of ripe cassis fruit. A super wine. Young, worth the wait" - Decanter.com ****(*) $25.95 per bottle 2008 Yalumba The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon WINE OF THE YEAR - The Big Red Wine Book 2010/2011; "It's a champion red. Really good Coonawarra cabernet... It's enough to make you fall in love with Coonawarra all over again" - Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh $23.95 per bottle 2007 Yalumba The Scribbler Cabernet Shiraz "A beautiful example of this classic blend. It has power and structure, an enormous amount of length, and terrific, supple texture" - The Big Red Book, No 1 in Top 100 Reds under $20, 94 points (Value *****) $18.95 per bottle 2006 Yalumba The Scribbler Cabernet Shiraz Trophy winner at The Great Australian Red; "Startling value for money" - Huon Hooke, 93 points; "A wine showing plenty of depth, richness and generosity" - James Halliday, 92 points; "And what a bargain it is too!" - Winewise, Highly Recommended $19.95 per bottle 2008 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1 James Halliday - 96 points; "A gorgeous rendition" - The Wine Front, 96 points $85.00 per bottle 2007 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1 A superb wine - more feminine and elegant than the meaty and robust 2006 $85.00 per bottle 2006 Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1 "A superlative blend of first-rate elegance, integration and harmony... long, deep and piercingly intense palate " - Jeremy Oliver, 96 points $85.00 per bottle 1999 Zema Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Jeremy Oliver - 93 points $39.95 per bottle 1998 Zema Estate Cabernet Sauvignon James Halliday - 95 points; Jeremy Oliver - 94 points $49.95 per bottle 2000 Zema Estate Family Selection Cabernet Sauvignon $49.95 per bottle |