This wine is produced with our best parcel of cabernet grapes. A concentrated fruit driven wine with flavours of dark fruit and wild berries. A wonderfully balanced palate and tannin structure provide great length and persistence to the finish. This wine will benefit from cellaring for 5+ years.

The ’standard’ Flametree cabernet merlot won last year’s Jimmy Watson Trophy and lo and behold, they have a higher grade cabernet (or at least higher-priced). I hope they stood up at the award ceremony and said, You call THAT a cabernet? THIS is a cabernet …And it is a far superior wine to the standard release. This is really good booze. It’s thick and chocolatey, pencilly and long. It has lots of velvety tannin and a curranty, earthen character that is ripe but not overtly sweet. Cabernet is such a superior grape to shiraz - you find yourself nodding smugly, knowingly, at yourself as you drink this. The Jimmy Watson Trophy was one thing … this wine is actually the goods. Rated : 95 Points Alcohol : 14% Price : $49 Closure : Screwcap Drink : 2012 - 2020 By Campbell Mattinson; The Wine Front

Dense purple-crimson; has all the depth and concentration one could possibly wish for, oozing blackcurrant and licorice, the tannins and 18 months in French oak providing structural integrity. Screwcap. 14% alc. Rating 94 Drink 2020 $49 Date Tasted Dec 08  James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2010