Greenock Estate Graeme Regional Cabernet 2016

Always exciting to find a newly released wine which has already enjoyed a lengthy spell in the cellar (remember, the current Grange is the 2018). Even better when it hails from a superb year. This wine is from the Wrattonbully region. Dark magenta in colour, there are some dusty oak notes, an attractive chocolate character, olives, warm earth, black cherries and we come full circle to more chocolate. This might be relatively simple in style, but it is plush and pleasing – a mid length style, a little upfront, with soft tannins. Drink over the next two to five years.