WA Wine Review 2025

This is a Right Bank influenced Bordeaux blend with about 91% cabernet franc. It’s a variety that needs good vintages and the early 2020 vintage has suited it. A mix of red berry and dark cherry and violet on the nose. The palate is still quite tight but elegantly framed with firm fine tannins. This is a serious statement of cab franc with cellaring potential. There’s an appealing juicy fruit character here. Cellar 12 years.

Wine Pilot

A cabernet franc led Bordeaux blend. More Right Bank than Left, with 91% cabernet franc out front of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and petit verdot.
The colour is deep, dense crimson. The scent is leafy greens, bright herbal thyme, sage, dark plum, green tea and violet aromatics. Linear and firm, a long line of tannin threads its way through the wine, through the black fruits, the anise and spice, the herbs, the gentle oak, the smoky tobacco and dusty earth. Brisk cherry pip dry finish. One for the cellar, if you can wait. Drink: 2023-2033