Coriole Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

94 POINTS

Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From estate vines planted in '86; about 25% new oak for 18 months. A cool year is a fine thing for cabernet in the Vale. Elegant, classically linear and fragrant, yet deep of flavour and properly structured. Mulberry, cedar, currant, pressed violets, nori and dried blackcurrant pastille. This is very classy, especially given the modest price tag.

93 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

I often say I prefer McLaren Vale Cabernet to Shiraz, though that’s maybe just me. Blackcurrant, blackberry, an iodine or seaweed thing, aniseed and dark tobacco, with a little cedar oak. It’s medium-bodied. It’s medium-bodied, has a savoury tobacco and black olive flavour, tempered by sweet dark fruit, a little autumnal and mulchy, but in a nice Cabernet way, a chamois-like grip to tannin, with a tobacco laced finish of good length and freshness. Stylish wine. Thoroughly varietal (and note the correct usage of that oft murdered word). I like it.