Ranked #2 of 60 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra
97/100
5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Deep, young purple/red colour, very fresh looking - and smelling. Fruit-driven blackberry, raspberry and blackcurrant nuances, with negligible herbal high-notes. The wine is intense and powerful yet also very elegant - moreso than the 2012 - and the fruit does all the talking. Strong but super-fine tannins. The wine has perfect balance in all respects: oak, tannin, acid and extract as well as flavour. A great wine.
Tasted: 13/07/2017
Drink: 2017 to 2045
91 Points Robert Parker
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2013 Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon offers a classic nose of cassis, black plums and blackberries with cedar, cloves and menthol nuances. Medium-bodied, fine, elegant and bursting with energy, it has beautifully grainy tannins framing the fruit and great length.
Source: Robert Parker (Robert Parker Wine Advocate) by Lisa Perrotti-Brown. August, 2016
96 Points James Halliday
Investment in the vineyards in the winery is paying big dividends, viticulturist Alan Jenkins and winemakers Sue Hodder and Sarah Pigeon with total control. The colour and sheer power of the varietal expression achieved at this level of alcohol is totally admirable; blackcurrant, blackberry and black olive are welded together with powdery tannins and perfectly judged oak. Drink to 2048.
-. July, 2021