Critic Score

• 97 – Jeremy Oliver
• 96 – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
• 93 – Wine Spectator
• 90 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Revered as the absolute Cabernet Sauvignon equivalent to Penfolds Grange, this monumental multi-regional masterpiece represents the pinnacle of Australia's rich and powerful house style. Sourced from highly acclaimed, ripe South Australian vineyards and aged for 15 months in 100% new American oak hogheads, the sensational 1998 growing season delivered an incredibly dense, concentrated, and near-opaque crimson wine built for the long haul.

The expressive bouquet surges with an intense array of cassis, blueberry, and dark plum, exquisitely enfolded by secondary signatures of tobacco, smoky cedar, mint, and a luxurious vanilla toast.

On the palate, it cuts an incredibly rich, round, and full-bodied swath, striking a brilliant balance between lavish black fruits and an aristocratic structural framework. Decades of careful cellaring have beautifully resolved its powerful architecture, seamlessly absorbing the formidable oak into a fine-grained, velvety texture that carries through to a massive, peppery finish.

As the vintage's leading critical reference, prominent Australian wine critic Jeremy Oliver awarded it a spectacular 97-point rating, famously declaring it "a 'wow' wine" that stands as a phenomenal testament to regional fruit purity and structural command.