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Watervale Estate Cabernet

Estate Cabernet


2019 Watervale Cabernet

2019 Estate Cabernet

Soft, succulent medium-weight red bolstered with firm, gravelly tannins and lashed with pristine dark fruit characters. Choc-berry, pickled plums, black olive and sage leaf to sniff on. Flavours more boozy, rich with ripe plum, dark chocolate, more black olive and that rumble of grippy tannins. Finishes fresh, long and chewy. Does a great job of heft married to drinkability.  Halliday 91/100

2018 Watervale Estate Cabernet

Estate Cabernet


2017 Watervale Cabernet

2017 Watervale Cabernet 

 

Bright and lifted, mulberry and blackberry, energetic and fruit driven. Supple, juicy, velvety plushness over a firmly composed frame. Bright florals and pretty blue fruits. Soft and plush. 

Hilltop Cabernet 2015

2015 Hilltop Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine exhibits notes of dried herbs and bay leaf, complemented by a mid-weight sweetness from the fruit. The Cabernet is both structured and juicy, featuring a savory finish. It was open-fermented and basket-pressed using traditional methods, then matured for 18 months in a blend of older American and French oak barriques. For the best experience, serve it decanted. With careful cellaring, this wine is expected to mature gracefully for over 8 years.

- Traditionally paired with chargrilled meats.

- Enjoy the flavors of North Africa with a tagine dish of spicy lamb, apricot, almond, and mint.

2015 Watervale Cabernet

2015 Watervale Cabernet 

 

Mulberry and plum, blackberry and bay. Supple and sinewy flesh, a seam of woody spice. Beautifully balanced, tightly focused, layered and detailed. Gorgeously gravelly tannins. Seriously good. Bright and lifted, packed with chocolate and spice. Mouthcoating and long, juicy and gravelly.


2014 Hilltop Cabernet

2014 Hilltop Cabernet 

 

Blackcurrant pastilles, some bay leaf and olive. Tight and firm. A confidently structured wine with really good internal architecture and a firm ironstone spine. A good one for the cellar.
Seriously structured. Dark fruits with a slight herbal edge. Lifted aromatics, long finish.


2013 Hilltop Cabernet

2013 Hilltop Cabernet 

Slightly two paced, sweet/sour. Dark berry fruit, some squishiness in the middle. Some leather and lacquer, old furniture and floor boards. Just a touch clipped on the finish. 

2012 Hilltop Cabernet

2012 Hilltop Cabernet

Some mulchy mulberries, dry leaf and cedar, emerging beef stock and mocha,coffee grounds and roasting pans.

Fine grained back end, retains good composure.

Lifted green herbal edges. Some leafy lift. A touch charryb and a fraction forward. Dusty finish.

Watervale Cabernet 2010

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2010 Watervale Cabernet

Fragrant and alluring, some violet and mulberry lift. Jubey fruit, berries and bracken. Beautifully composed and assured, exquisitely fine tannin frame. A cracker. Drinking beautifully now, but still has plenty of life ahead of it. Classic Clare Cabernet. (NR)

Beautifully bright and lifted. Amazing freshness. Black fruits galore, mouthcoating tannins. Remarkably youthful