2022 d’Arenberg The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvignon 12 Pack

92 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

It's delightfully fruited and fragrant on the nose with aromas of blackcurrant, tobacco, fennel, and nutmeg. The palate delivers succulent fruit intensity with supple texture and grainy tannins, finishing sturdy and lingering with complex flavours.

92 POINTS

Ken Gargett - Winepilot

Again, traditional foot treading takes place 2/3rds of the way through fermentation, with the fermentation then completed in old French oak barriques and a maturation of twenty months. An opaque maroon hue, the aromas weave through dried herbs, black olives, bay leaves, licorice, chocolate, soy and coffee grinds. The wine opens with plushness and generosity and exhibits excellent extract. There are slick tannins on the finish, which does fade a little, but the wine is still thoroughly enjoyable drinking and should be that and more over the next ten years.

Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

Heightened aromatics, initially focusing on cabernet’s hedgerow/herbal side, albeit with a cohort of dark fruits swelling beneath. Cassis and crème de mûre, raisin-studded chocolate, mint, lavender pastille. Tannins are less classically linear and more gruffly arrayed and shaped, a little cool and drying, the acidity pert.