2005 Fairbank Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot
Jeremy Oliver, The Australian Wine Annual 2009
"A robust, assertively structured and long term cabernet of exceptional elegance and terrific value. Scented with blackberries, dark plums and raspberries, it's perfumed and polished with a sweet, vibrant expression of dark plum, berry and cherry like fruit handsomely knit with cedary and chocolatey oak. It finishes long and layered, with regional nuances of mint and menthol. Rating 95."
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010
"Bright colour; cassis and black olive and a well-defined, savoury personality;quite fleshy, but also very firm, with an assertive tannin structure at this point in time. Rating 89."
Gilles Lapalus, Winemaker Sutton Grange Winery
Dark carmine red, with purple nuances, good limpidity.
Good intensity, the nose is clean, varietal, with a distinctive fruit (cassis) and herbal (ivy) note. This is complemented with light presence of toasted oak and spicy wood (sandal).
Very delicate mouthfeel, with a good fluidity, this wine is showing its youth. Very fruity aromas (cassis, raspberry), well integrated acidity, persistent tannins melting into the structure, and well supported by more complex aromas (tobacco, hay). Very refreshing in the length.
A very young wine in a "cooler" year, is showing very good drinkability already. All the elements are here in place, and it will not need too much more time to serve this wine in the best conditions, which is, with a fine spring lamb.
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