Brilliant dark red with a red hue, the wine displays intense aromatic red Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon characteristics of cassis, bay leaf and cigar box, whilst the French oak maturation provides hints of vanillin and mocha to the bouquet. The finely structured palate has characters of plums, cassis and dark chocolate. Fine, svelte tannins give the palate a lovely line and length.

A wine to be enjoyed upon release, or will reward those who patiently cellar over the next 10 years

Jane Faulkner in the James Halliday Wine Companion 2025 on 6/1/2024 - "A richer, riper style this vintage and needing some space to open before a wave of flavour appears, lots of cassis and currants, mulberries doused in choc-mint with licorice and nori plus charry/cedary oak. Full bodied with plentiful tannins that are not quite resolved; in another year or so, this will start to sing."