2018 Squawking Magpie Grand Gimblett Cabernet Sauvignon

"Medium deep crimson. Very attractive ripe dark cherry cassis mocha roasted chestnut aromas. Generous and chocolatey with voluminous dark cherry blackcurrant fruits, fine gravelly/ velvety tannins, integrated mocha vanilla oak complexity and persistent mineral acidity. Finishes grippy firm with plentiful dark fruits. Very good."

“The bouquet is compact, tense, varietal and very enticing with aromas of blackberry and cigar tobacco, olive and black cherry, sweet vanilla and wood smoke, crushed roses and violets. The core is the fruits, the foundation the gravelly earthy woody combinations. On the palate – equally compact and youthful, tense and taut. Flavours of dark berries then lead, gun-powder, toasty barrel spices and its natural sweetness, stony earth and non fruits reflecting the nose. Firm tannins and plenty of acidity, power, length and appeal. Decant for service. best drinking from 2024 through 2034+.”

“This classy, French oak-aged Cabernet Sauvignon (100%) is dark, mouthfilling and supple, with concentrated, ripe blackcurrant, plum and spice flavours and nutty, savoury notes adding complexity. One for the cellar.”