Limited to 25 magnums, this exclusive offering has been released from our personal museum cellar, ideal for both festive drinking and gifting.
 
Likely the penultimate vintage from this historic site due to its acquisition by property developers, this festive season Member's Exclusive celebrates the best year yet for us from this wonderful vineyard, and a wine that displays my most prized characteristics - effortless complexity and power without weight.
 
The most refined of our Cabernet cuvées, but also the most concentrated and finely balanced. Deep, inky garnet. A wine which immediately makes one sit up and focus. Refined and complex with graphite, sweet cassis, cedar spice, violet and rose, air reveals infinite nuance and detail and a briny, nori like complexity. The palate is flooded with wave upon wave of dark Cabernet fruit, braced by a strict but not overbearing tannic structure and refreshing acid, finishing with sweet violet and cassis, and a wave of perfume. 
 
Please decant well prior to drinking, or cellar for as long as you like. 
 
"It took a long time to put words down to properly express how exceptional this is, as it’s a wine of beauty, power and consideration. It’s perfectly formed with heady aromas of dark fruit, cassis, currants and cedary oak (not much, just a seasoning) and violets with the usual menthol (again not much). The mid-weighted palate is ultra-refined and layered with flavour, detail and richness, but all curtailed by fine acidity and the most exquisite tannins. The end result? Impeccable balance. Its youthful charm means this is drinking well today but, as Josh Cooper knows, this will last quite some distance."
-
Jane Faulkner, Wine Companion (97+ Points)
 
 
"This shows real old-school charm with polish and depth of character, recalling the classic days of cabernet. Aromas of black-fruits, spice, cedar, damson plums, black ink, tobacco leaves, graphite, and a ferrous earth, with a floral touch.  The palate is mid-weighted, firmly framed yet ethereal in feel, with mineral tension and purity. Drinks like an old-school Bordeaux with a fine textural touch."
-
Ryan Montgomery, JamesSuckling.com (97 Points)
 
-
 
"This wine puts me in mind of the great cabernets of Australia. It has a distinct minty, eucalyptus character but it fits with the cassis, dark cherry, white pepper, old cigar box, a curious volcanic ash note and red capsicum characters that meld around that. Distinctly minerally too, a cool, almost mineral water meets river pebble feel to this wine. Tightly wound, fine, sleek tannins lending a freshness and succulence that delivers comments like ‘outstanding tannin profile’ and similar. A medium weight and cool feeling wine, compact and energetic. This is ridiculously good red wine, complex, layered, nuanced, understated and just gorgeous and delicious to drink now; with an immense future. Lay on the superlatives. One of the best young cabernets I’ve seen from Australia, to stutter."
-
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front (96+ Points)