The 2007 Scotsdale Cabernet Sauvignon is a crimson red wine  of medium  density with a purple rim. The hallmark of Mt Barker Cabernet Sauvignon from a great year is concentration, elegance and complexity in both the bouquet and palate.  This wine displays blackberry and mulberry fruits with forest floor like herbal aromas so typical of top Mt Barker Cabernet. There are chocolate and mocha characters supporting the clean fruit.

The palate is dense and concentrated yet soft and elegant with focussed sweet fruit flavours. There are dark chocolate and dark berries on the palate of rare power and intensity.  A firm structure gives backbone to the plush fruit and mouthfilling tannins are silky and supple. Aging will benefit this wine full of youthful potential.

Deep, dark and inky; a complex black olive bouquet, with a very rich, powerful and heady mix of cassis, cedar and a little violet thrown in for good measure; the oak merely plays a supporting role; generous, firm and very long. To 2018. 95 Points James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010

Beautiful,sweet fruit, good balance and even flow of flavours across the palate. Tony Keys, The KROW (The Key Review of Wines)

We return to sharp varietal definition in two contrasting Howard Park wines from individual vineyards in Western Australia's Great Southern and Margaret River regions. The Great Southern wine presents ripe-berry flavours in a lovely interplay with classy oak without the leafy notes (usually indicative of a cool season) Scotsdale features very intense, very young flavours and taut, elegant structure. These Howard Park cabernets are strong, characterful wines needing a few more years bottle age to reveal their best. Chris Shanahan, The Canberra Times