SA Wine Guide 2025

PAULMARA ESTATES Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Good depth of colour purple core/ ruby hues. Good intensity - an oaked style, but has some good fruit weight to balance. Youthful and clean with structure and length. Purple Hands Wines Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Great colour - purples with good density , ripe concentrated fruit with supportive oak, nice fruit packed out with tannins good architecture Eden Hall ‘Springton’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Ripe, jubey red and black fruits, palate quite warm and powerful, ripe tannins. Good length of fruit. Redman Wines The First Divide Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Crimson core. Sweet cassis and red fruits with tobacco leaf lift and perfume. Brightness on palate, oak and fruit focus and shape. Elegant and fine tannin profile. Kies Wines The Suit Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Elegant frame, nice juicy mid palate. Refinement and some succulence with fruit/spice elements. HEWITSON The Dorrien Bank Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Elevated florals - violets, earl grey tea, blackcurrant. Palate is seamless and refined with well balanced tannins/acidity. Bloodstone/shale, super fresh. Solid in all departments Zonte’s Footstep Blackberry Patch Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Boysenberry kick, cassis, with ethereal qualities, slight meatiness, super savoury. Elegant drinking. Sussex Squire Wines Samuel Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Ripe fruit expression here - black olive, blackcurrant and cassis. Complex, Deep crimson, brick red hues. Lifted herbacious characters with leather and pepper notes (savoury style). Good acidity, elegant palate, slightly short finish. Westmere Wines Barbs Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Slightly muted fruit, bean and mint. Good weight into the palate, firm but resolved tannin and a nice evolution through the finish. fruit-laden style. Slightly soft around the edges. Morgan Simpson Row 42 Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Naked Run Wines Place in Time Sevenhill Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 Nice colour, dark fruit characters, blueberry, blackcurrant, medium tannin, good intensity on the palate, juicy, medium finish

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