2012 Reillys R Cabernet Sauvignon

Shiraz only devotees should break their oaths to experience this Clare Valley belter.

Reillys continue to impress, right across their range of value priced offerings that over deliver in every respect. This is their best Cabernet to date, bursting with a core of ripe blackcurrant that hits the palate with a bang. Matured for 18 months in French oak hogsheads, fruit for this Cabernet is sourced from Reillys St Clare and Leasingham vineyards. Excellent colour saturation displaying an inky black dark purple core with a very dark purple black tinged hue. The nose exhibits lifted ripe blackcurrant and black cherry scents with some liquorice, cedar and spice end notes following. Decked out with delicious, fully ripened blackcurrant flavours alongside some black cherry and liquorice with underlying cedary tobacco like flavours and spices emerging on the back palate. This is Cabernet for Shiraz drinkers! Superb depth and richness at this price with fine grained, slightly chewy tannins. Long ripe blackcurrant, liquorice, cedary tobacco and spice.