Just the third straight cabernet made, and from grapes planted in '99. A deepish bright crimson purple. A touch more closed than the Yeringberg blend, but still with a lovely core of dark fruits, together with cedar, violets and a hint of iodine on the perfumed and captivating bouquet. The medium-bodied and firmly structured palate is beautifully balanced but with those, firm, fine-grained tannins, this will require some patience to fulfil its potential.

Deep ruby with a touch of purple in the light. Blackberry, cigarbox and dried thyme aromatics. Medium in weight but the black fruited core has wonderful intensity to it. Layers upon layers of complexity ebb and flow across the palate: iodine, dusty earth, dried herbs and cedar wood notes are all in the mix with nothing feeling out of place. Tannins are certainly there, but well integrated so that they remain a background sensation, only coming to the fore at the very long finish. A wonderfully elegant cabernet that will delight for many years to come 27 Jan 2025

Intense small berried black and red fruits, quite some violet perfume, pencils and tobacco, perhaps a little aniseed. It’s medium-bodied, quite ferrous and pencilly, the old liquid ‘mineral’ feel that great Cabernet often sports, compact and fine-grained tannin grip, freshness and excellent length, some redcurrant peeking through in the aftertaste along with some more savoury/earthy character. Beautiful wine. So good.