Geoff Merrill Parham Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This opulent and stylish cabernet offers dark fruit richness on the nose with nuances of vanilla pod, cigar box, dark cocoa and anise. The palate displays outstanding concentration and depth together with plush mouthfeel and fine chalky tannins, making it firmly structured and brooding, while remaining harmonious and flowing with grace and beauty. Stunning. A blend of grapes from 85% McLaren Vale and 15% Coonawarra.

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Steven Creber - Halliday Wine Companion

McLaren Vale 85%, Coonawarra 15%. 27 months in new American hogsheads. The fruit has done a pretty good job of absorbing that oak, blackcurrant and blackberry just shading mocha and cedar. At present it's a densely packed wine, yet to really spread its wings, but there's impressive depth of flavour there no doubt with very high quality tannin as well. Patience required.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

85% McLaren Vale (Wickham vineyard), 15% Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon (Graymoor). 27 months in American oak hogsheads. A swashbuckling red. Old school depth and power, fruit and oak. Coffee, milked; fruit, sweet. Blackberry, tar, plum and honey is delivered in tandem with a huge drag of grainy, no-nonsense tannin. There’s a dustiness to this, an earthen aspect, though the main story is all toast, coconut oil and saturated fruit. Beware those who dare to enter here.