Jim Barry The Benbournie Cabernet Sauvignon Cellar Release 2014

95 POINTS

Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

This wine is really coming into its own and starting to show some intriguing secondary characters. There's an umami savoriness and a vegetal streak too, like soy sauce, iodine and roasted beet root amidst the primary cherry and blueberry fruit, florals, peppery spice and tobacco characters. A big wine with tightly woven, textural tannins, it's still remarkably fresh; the tangy fruit is still in the fore. Drink through 2032.

94 POINTS

James Suckling

An impressive cabernet in terms of structure, depth and freshness. This is packed with stylish cassis, blackberry and mulberry aromas. The palate has vibrant and punchy dark cherries and cassis fruit, as well as shimmery layers of tannins that hold long and pure. Terrific structure and beautiful resolve. This is one stylish cabernet.

93 POINTS

Josh Raynolds - Vinous

Inky ruby. Highly expressive, oak-tinged cherry, red currant and floral pastille scents are complemented by vanilla and mocha flourishes. Sweet, seamless and sharply delineated in the mouth, offering sappy red berry, bitter cherry and spicecake flavors and a sweetening vanilla flourish. Shows excellent clarity and appealing sweetness on the very long, juicy finish, which features repeating spiciness, a touch of smokiness and subtle, slow-building tannins.

91 POINTS

Ned Goodwin - Halliday Wine Companion

A pointed cabernet, beaming red and blackcurrant DNA along verdant lines of spearmint tannins. Finishes with a flourish of bitter chocolate, garden herb and dried sage.

Tim Jackson MW - JancisRobinson.com

Deep garnet. Eucalypt, cinnamon-clove and sweet, jammy blackcurrant that is integrated with chocolate tones. Juicy, bright, jammy cassis, cinnamon spice and eucalypt, wrapped around polished, fairly firm tannins. Fresh and long. Score: 17/20