Time spent in French oak barrels, 15% of which were new, has helped mould a fine, warm climate Cabernet which...

This wine sees only French oak hogsheads, around half of them new, for a year and a half. A fine...

95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc sourced from the estate Clairault vineyard in Wilyabrup. This has a core of...

Predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and a twitch of Cabernet Franc. This is potent with dark cherries and Davidson plum...

This was a very good year in McLaren Vale and it’s been captured superbly in this now mature Cabernet Franc....

This is a sort of left bank-right bank combination of fruits from McLaren Vale, and although the wine is now...

The quality of the season is immediately apparent; the colour is still vibrant and bright with a ruby red middle...

This is the most stylish medium-bodied red from the Wrattonbully vineyard. Despite the cool season, this variety shows good fruit...

Lives large and ripe, the result of what was to all reports some intense Napa Valley heat during harvest. With...

Bin 407 is never my favourite red from the annual release – there is always better value, and more excitement,...

Cabernet Sauvignon (52%) takes the lead role – just – but this is very much a wine that celebrates two...

This is the fourth release of the French Wine Trial (FWT) sourcing Bordeaux Cabernet Sauvignon (56%), Merlot (41%) and Petit...

A seamless pairing of Cabernet Sauvignon (51%) and Shiraz (49%) sourced from McLaren Vale, Padthaway and the Barossa Valley. A...

You get the sense that the French and American oak regime on 407 has been ever so slowly evolving, changing...

Marselan is one exciting addition to the Penfolds Chinese Wine Trial (CWT) programme, a French-bred cross of Cabernet Sauvignon and...

This vintage hails from vineyards in McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Padthaway. Maturation is in American oak for a year...

Always a star of the Collection, year after year. The blend, as it almost always is, falls marginally in favour...

There is one important and traditional – some might suggest, essential – voice missing in the 2023 Bin 707 and...

Close your eyes, take a sniff and visions of wildflowers, wild thyme, earth and bush come into view. It’s a...

The fruit for this excellent wine comes from Bekkers Clarendon Vineyard Estate, which was planted back in the early 90s....

The 2023 Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon, the first from their Clarendon Vineyard Estate is a fine and ethereal expression of the...

All Clarendon fruit and a cheeky 10% Cabernet Franc inclusion. This is all manner of blackberries, huckleberry, prune and plums....

Sourced from two prized vineyards in the Barossa and Eden Valleys, hence the overarching “Barossa” zone labelling. The 2021 vintage...

As well-structured and compelling as Cabernet Sauvignon off Coonawarra terra rossa soils can be. And there’s a sweet surprise in...