2015 Wendouree Cabernet Sauvignon

96 points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
It’s the Clare bush perfume of eucalyptus, aniseed and the like, along with fresh blackberry and blackcurrant, cedar and dusty earth. It often smells like a dry Australian forest after the rain has hit – petrichor – and equally evocative it is too. Medium bodied, firm and bony, kind of tense, but with a sweet redcurrant and blackcurrant small-berried intensity, the crunch of acidity and firm ropes of tannin, and a finish that’s intense and phenomenally long, tinged with bush perfume and the promise of forgiveness, given a couple of decades. It’s a very fine Cabernet. Unapologetically Australian, individual and magnificent.

Top Vintages of Cabernet:
1997 - 18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2001 -18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2002 -18.5/20 - Jancis Robinson
2006 - 93+ Points - The Wine Front
2009 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2010 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2012 - 98 Points-Wine Companion
2013 - 98 Points - Jeremy Oliver
2014 - 97 Points - Wine Companion
2015 - 96 Points - The Wine Front
2016 - 96+ Points - The Wine Front
2017 - 94 Points - Robert Parker

Wine Decoded:
AP Birks Wendouree Cellars produce some of the very few wines I’ll buy without tasting! The wines are something special. A celebration of an incredible old vineyard with plantings from the late 1800s. Tony & Lita are custodians of something truly special!
From 1971 and 2002 plantings. Some argue that his Cabernet and Cabernet Malbec are not varietal in character. This I don’t care about. What I’m looking for is wine that is good and these are damn good! Both have an incredible core of fruit and strong personalities.