Fermoy Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

2020 Fermoy Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Best in Show, 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold, 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold, 2022 & 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
Gold, 2023 Halliday Cabernet Challenge
Gold, 2023 Sydney Royal Wine Show
Gold, 2023 Wine Show of WA
Gold, 2022 WA Boutique & Single Vineyard Wine Show

Decanter World Wine Awards Judges "Do Cabernet Sauvignon and Margaret River go together? Well, it’s the fourth time that the combination has been featured in our Best In Show selection – so yes, they do. Three of those laureates, intriguingly, have come from the high-quality, low-quantity 2020 vintage – and if this wine is anything to go by, it’s a vintage which is taking its time to reach even early maturity. This wine remains an opaque black-red in colour, with admirably pure and restrained aromas of shapely blackcurrant lent freshening complexity by bush and scrub notes – a single sniff is transporting. The wine is concentrated and refined on the palate. Not merely fruity, though there is plenty of that ‘noble’ blackcurrant to enjoy, but the fruit is lent shade and nuance by the biotope allusions evident on the nose. The tannins and acids are measured and proportionate; the ripeness well-judged; and the wine moves through the mouth with easy, drinkable grace.”