Very much a fruit-driven wine, the nose is of currants, plum and blackberry with just the right amount of sweetly aromatic cedar/ pencil oak. On the tongue this smart cabernet merlot blend offers a palate of plums and licorice, cherries and turkish delight.

Pick of the pick in McLaren vale cabernet sauvignon, this perennially undervalued wine is requisite drinking for all enthusiasts of archetypal Aussie cabernet. An opaque palate with carnal fruit and tactile, gummy tannins.

Sweet black berry aromas with a wisp of rich oak and perfumes of cassis. On the tongue she unravels her yarn of blackberry, currant and leaf, a generous bosom of plump, fleshy fruits, sweet ham and bouquet garni. A well constructed, satisfying class of cabernet, she closes to lingering impressions of velvety purple fruit, cigarbox and spice.

Aromas of cherry and pepper, crushed leaf and plum. Fruit driven yet dry to the palate, cinammon and licorice, cocoa and winegum. Strength, effusiveness and warmth, a long seamless palate, tannins cling to the cool characters of the high country fruit, she disappears down the throat, accompanied by integrated oak to a long, graceful finish.

Assertively Coonawarra, endowed with scents of blueberry and currant, the style evolves with each release into a smoother, more finely integrated construct. The palate like a feast of fruit, an unforgettable finish of bramble, cigar and the finest new oak.

Amenable acids and tenacious tannins within a covenant of complaisant Malibu oak and congealed cherry/ brambleberry/ carob extracts.

This wine struts across the palate, it's big with luscious rich festive cakes and punnets of summer berries, savoury notes and red smokey meats, all nestled in a cradle of firm supporting tannins.

Chewy, intense wine with prepossessing flavours and striking aromas, a sticky palate of blueberry and liqorice, mint and black cherry.

Conjures up visions of liqueured fruits under couverture. A ganache and cherry flavoured wine, infused with sweet herb, lifted by a chassis of pliant tannins and aromatic oak. Certainly, pour yourself a glass but leave me with the bottle.