2016 Voyager Estate Block U12 Cabernet Sauvignon

"I have to say, some vineyards really have a personality to them... And this one was, just, different somehow. The breeze that whipped through it was the essence of coastal and the vines looked... energetic somehow. The wine carried that vineyard feeling into the glass. ”

"Ruggedly beautiful. This is brilliant with bold fruit but it's muscular with tannin too; it's like a bodybuilder in sheer lycra. Smooth cassis, silken milk chocolate, a smattering of bay leaves and violets. It has good concentration but it's not a big wine; it doesn't need to be. What it does have is form, presence and persistence."

"From a block planted in 1995. It spends 15 months in all-French oak, 50% new. It’s an elegant wine with some grunt. A motor of blackcurrant certainly hums away, gravel and gum leaf characters sparking throughout. The texture is creamy, the oak of the chocolate and woodsmoke kind, the nuances coming from spots of tangerine and raspberry. There light and shade going on here, aided by savoury bay leaf notes. Everything is dotted and crossed here; everything has been arranged just so. It’s hard to imagine it doing anything other than maturing beautifully."