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

Stuart McCloskey, tasted May 2025 "I will come clean – I failed to understand all the hype when I first sampled the wine. I found it a tad tough and angular. Today, this feels rested and a giver of joy. The perfume exudes Margaret River charm and is awash with blackcurrant, cassis, violet, sea spray, peppermint, white pepper, fresh sage along with a waft of sweet, piping tobacco. The palate radiates elegance and charm, but not at the expense of the fruit, which flows in a stream of ripe blue and black berries. The interplay with the tannins is genius. Structured, sculptured, seductive, and delivered by a winemaker wearing velvet gloves. The length is mightily impressive – I do like the sorbet-esque tang to the acidity. The wine’s X-Factor is noticeable however, and what I find most attractive, it’s not a showy style of wine. A fine, regal, sophisticated and a flawless expression of its region. In the context of today’s article - this is not inexpensive, but I will argue that it is worth every penny and better than many of its more expensive neighbours. A wine of charming beauty that will continue to provide a decade or more of pleasure. Rather addictive, too. Sample number three and it’s only 11:30am!. Served using Zalto Bordeaux glassware. I am really looking forward to enjoying the remainder tonight (using Burgundy stemware, which could be the better choice). Decant for an hour… Praise be."

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.”