Marri Wood Park Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Fermented in large format and French oak barrels before being transferred to amphora and oak for a further four months with extended maceration in amphora. This is a power dart of black and blue fruits straight to your face, such is the intensity and aromatic lift. If being pummeled by black forest fruits isn’t for you, I call BS. Because this is energetic in its display of boysenberry and blueberry, and delivers its intensity with smothering kisses of graphite, thistle and poppy seed. It’s certainly not a wine you need to go searching for its flavour profile, tannins are fairly powdery and fine allowing for early drinking but it has the ability to show those earthly and turned potting soil notes with further aging. I would recommend between 5-8 years. For now, change out of your good white linen, pop a smock on and embrace the Cabernet blitz. Serve with a nice scotch fillet and some roast purple taro.