This distinctive and sophisticated 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is attractive, delicious and built to age. Aromas of freshly roasted coffee cascade into flavors of violet and sweet plum sprinkled with spiced cocoa. The tannins are persistent and velvety carrying into a long finish. Well done.
97 Owen Bargreen - OwenBargreen.com
The 2021 ‘Solari’ is a stunning wine made by winemaker Avery Heelan. Very inky in the glass, the wine was stored in mainly new French oak barrels before bottling. Tar and tobacco leaf fill the nose alongside dense black currants and shades of blackberry compote. The palate is refined and elegant with a wonderful herbal streak that mingles well with its generous core of black fruits, molten chocolate and cigar ash. Very complex and delicious, enjoy now and over the next twenty years to come. Drink 2024-2042-
97 Jonathan Cristaldi - Decanter Magazine
Lifted and bright, revealing crunchy red-skinned fruit aromatics intermixed with purple florals, cedarwood and a subtle spearmint pop. Beautifully plump fruit introduces a medium-bodied red and possesses an absolute purity of fruit flavours that run from raspberry and cherry to pomegranate and spiced plums interlaced with brown baking spices such as cardamon and nuanced by sandalwood notes. The tannins are substantial, taut, mineral-laced, and well-integrated at this early stage. They have a commanding presence and, with some air, can be enjoyed now, but this wine has the bones to cellar for decades. This is a selection of the older vines on the property. Blended in April and bottled in August of 2023.
