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A very expressive nose of blue fruits, dried purple florals, currants, hot cross buns, fresh liquorice and black olive. The aromas really ‘pop’ – 2024 was such a great Yarra Cabernet vintage!
The palate shows a heap of red cherry and black currant fruit together with spiced raspberry. There is a vibrant pulse of acidity that lifts the fruit on its bed of graphite tannin. The savoury undertones of pencil box and nori roll match perfectly to the vibrant fruits. This will be a long-lived Isabella Cabernet!
Hand-picked on the 21st March 2024
Vinification & Elevage: Fruit was destemmed as whole berries and fermented on skins for 14 days in open top wooden vats. Pressed to French oak (10% new) for malolactic conversion, spending 10 months in oak prior to bottling.
Gold Medal – Yarra Valley Wine Show 2025
Trophy – Best of Region Yarra Valley, James Halliday Wine Cabernet Challenge 2025
This is a dark and concentrated wine, but it also has plenty of perfume. Blackcurrant, boysenberry, chocolate, some exotic spice, and a subtle olive leaf note. It’s medium-bodied, dense in flavour, a fine dusty and gravelly grip to tannin, balanced acidity, with a redcurrant and rosy finish of excellent length. Excellent now, likely better later.
– Gary Walsh, The Wine Front 2026
97 Points – Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion, August 2026
Gold Medal – Yarra Valley Wine Show 2025
94+ Points – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, August 2026
The fruit for this Cabernet Sauvignon comes from our Briarty Road Vineyard in Gruyere.
Cabernet Sauvignon clone: SA125
