2021 Mountadam High Eden 'Milton' Cabernet Sauvignon

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Sophisticated and captivating, the bouquet shows cassis, tobacco, mixed spice, cedary oak and rich floral aromas. The palate is equally enticing with outstanding concentration and presence, wonderfully complemented by richly textured mouthfeel and layers of polished tannins. Multi-layered and immensely complex with a great line and length. At its best: 2039. www.mountadam.com.au.

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Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion

Cabernet sauvignon sourced from Block 21 in the High Eden at 550m above sea level; matured for 20 months in one to two-year-old French barriques. Deep crimson and packed with bramble-edged blackberry, blackcurrant and black cherry fruits. Hints of brown spice, violets, briar, licorice, cedar, sage and vanilla bean. There's a lovely density with great tension between that High Eden mineral line and the ripe black fruits with fine, granite-dust tannins. The alcohol is high for a wine from the High Eden, but it handles it well and that fruit weight is impressive.

Ned Goodwin MW James Suckling

A soupy, sweet and full-weighted cabernet with the faintest mode of differentiation between a verdant varietal tattoo, and the sweet, soupy fruit and abhorrent oak handling of a winemaking regime that feels on its last legs. Poor. Drink now.