Cabernet Sauvignon can be a simple sip or a symphony of the senses, a moment of pleasure or an eternity of contemplation. Only the poet can know, so stop thinking and surrender. Dark, black-violet in colour; a little brooding. Mulberry fruits and tobacco leaves drying. Pencil shavings. Cassis and blackberries - blackberries eaten greedily. These Cabernet aromas are dove-tailed into the bouquet of subtle oak - sarsaparilla and cola nut. Then aromatically returns: mint, spearmint, and the most impossibly, barest whiff of tomato leaf. A hand-laid, mortar-free, dry stone wall of Cabernet's antediluvian quality: tannin. This is a dry, long and carefully structured red wine. All dark berries and fruits, mint, and eucalypt lurking in the shadows of the tannic structure, but lurking never-the-less. The brighter blackberry flavours provide a cooling and refreshing quality, promising age-worthiness, but also providing delight now.