Voyager's odyssey is to make the best wine possible. Girt by Sea is a suave Cabernet Merlot in classic Margaret River styling, vigorously fruit driven and seductively soft, it makes sensational early drinking and will thrill all who indulge in it.

Voyager employs maximum vine management in terms of canopy maintenance, aiming for low bud numbers and small bunches per vine for premium fruit quality, clonal selection is also an area of close attention. All components are vinified seperately in upright static fermenters with regular pumpovers. Inoculated by small amounts of the 796 Bordeaux yeast strain and fermented at temperatures kept below 28°C. Ferments last up to fourteen days before either being pressed or allowed to stay on skins for further texture and tannin modification. All batches complete malolactic in tank before a transfer to barrel and matured in a mix of older French and American oaks for twelve months 
 
Dark red, crimson colour. Lifted bouquet of cassis and mulberries with some dusty briary notes and hints of vanillin and cedar from the fine grained oak. A fine elegant wine with an excellent concentration of juicy, ripe fruit displaying flavours of blackberry, dark cherry and mulberry. The silky tannins integrate seamlessly with the fruit. Gently oaked and subtley spiced, the fine, earthy tannins taper to a well structured and clean finish.

Australians all let us rejoice, for Voyager’s almost free! With boundless violet perfume to share, its palate abounds in nature’s gifts of tobacco, capsicum and blackcurrant. In joyful strains then let us drink! Advance Margaret River fare! $19 at WineStar. Drink 2012-2018; 92 points; Tyson Stezer, Wine Taste

Shows the effortlessness Marrgaret River can string a Cabernet Merlot together. Juicy black cherry and plum fruits, leaves and mulberry and spicy oak. Plenty of punch, freshness and balance.  Nick Stock; Wine100 – 92 points