(2007) A blend of approximately 80/20 McLaren Vale and Coonawarra fruit, spending 24 months in first American, then French oak. A much more minty and eucalypt character than the regular Cabernet bottling, with ripe, very dense blackcurrant aromas with terrific purity. Lovely sophisticated oak quality and bottle age adds a cedary, savoury edge. Lovely palate too, with a flood of slightly earthy, gamy fruit that maintains that creamy blackcurrant purity, with fine, quite chocolaty tannins combining with coffeeish, svelte oak into a long, nicely balanced finish. Lovely stuff.