The Thomas Hardy label is accorded to the best Cabernet Sauvignon made in the vintage, regardless of its geographic origin. The wine has fulfilled all its potential since the National Wine Show ‘06, when it won multiple trophies. Beautiful cassis and blackcurrant varietal fruit expression runs through the palate to its vibrant, surging finish. From Margaret River, WA; Drink to 2024 with parmigiana; 97 points, $107, Cork, 14% alc; Halliday’s Top 100 Wines for 2009 – The Weekend Australian November 14-15, 2009
Western Australia experienced the best growing conditions for producing red wines in over a decade. Moderately warm days and absence of any rainfall events produced fruit of exceptional flavour and balance. Hand picked fruit was destemmed into 2 tonne open fermenters. Hand plunging and pressed off skins at dryness. Racked to barrel to undergo MLF. Racked then light egg white fining prior to bottle. Sourced from two vineyards that were planted in the early 1970's within the Wilyabrup sub region of Margaret River, Western Australia. The vine maturity, careful fruit selection and judicious winemaking has produced a world class example of Cabernet Sauvignon.
A rarely encountered fusion of finesse, length and intensity; a remarkable wine for its varietal purity and presence. From Margaret River, not Coonawarra. Multiple trophies National Wine Show '06. Cork. 14% alc. Rating 97 Drink 2024 Date Tasted Nov 06 James Halliday Wine Companion
I’d like to show you the new bottle image but yet again it’s not loaded into the corporate media library. So close your eyes and imagine a plain Bordeaux bottle with a little round metallic silver shield in the middle, the edges frilled a little like a doylie, or perhaps a rose. Clean and bright with blackcurrant, red fruits, chocolate, aniseed and liberal cedar oak - all ripe but nothing over-played. It’s medium to full bodied with perfect oak and fruit integration, fine ripe tannins and feels fluid and extremely long. There’s no heat and no noise - just pure Cabernet joy all the way through. Fabulous wine. I scratch my head and wonder why there can’t be more wines like this. Rated : 96 Points; Tasted : Sep08 Alcohol : 13.5% Price : $105 Closure : Cork Drink : 2012 - 2024+ By Gary Walsh; The Wine Front
A spectacular Margaret River cabernet whose intense aromas of blackberries, plums, raspberries, dark cherries and cassis overlie restrained oak and a slightly leafy suggestion of dried herbs. Vibrant and juicy, it’s smooth and silky, revealing a beautifully handled and elegant palate whose deep, dark fruit qualities are tightly offset by plain chocolate oak and framed by firm, fine loose-knit tannins. (Margaret River, not yet released, 19.0/96, drink 2016-2024+) Jeremy Oliver
Trophy for Best Red Wine - National Wine Show (Canberra) 2008
Trophy for Best Red Table Wine - Premium Classes - National Wine Show (Canberra) 2008
Trophy for Best Red Wine 2004 and Older - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2008
Gold Medal - National Wine Show (Canberra) 2008
Gold Medal - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2008
Gold Medal - Royal Perth Wine Show 2008
Gold Medal - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2007
Gold Medal - Royal Queensland Wine Show 2007
Gold Medal - National Wine Show (Canberra) 2006
Gold Medal - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2006
Gold Medal - Royal Queensland Wine Show 2006
Gold Medal - Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2005