Passel Estate Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

A fine-featured cabernet with Margaret River class written all over it. It’s one of those wines you just want to inhale over and over, taking in the sheer aromatic pleasure of it all. Where to start? Black fruits first up of the blackberry and blackcurrant kind, ripe and concentrated. There’s camphor, vanilla, cinnamon, too, lifted and engaging. Where the 2017 shiraz is showing its age, this is not the case with the ’17 cabernet. There is so much life and energy here. Rolls across the tongue supported by velvety, fine tannins with a terrific depth of flavour meting out black berries, a gentle leafiness  with an earthy allure. An added spicy touch of anise lifts. Classic shades of Margaret River cabernet and will age a treat.