16 of The Southern Hemisphere’s Finest Cabernet Sauvignons
Multiple “Wine of the Year” winners. Many, many trophies. Scores pushing perfection. Litanies of 98 and 99 points. From Margaret River to Hawke’s Bay, Clare to Coonawarra, this is a lineup that shows exactly why Cabernet still sits at the top of the tree.
Structure, longevity, precision...
Across 7 vintages… 2018 to 2024
Cabernet & Blends of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion 2026
Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2026
Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2025
Cabernet Shiraz Blend of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2024
Trophy – Champion Wine, James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge 2024.
Australia’s most significant Annual Cabernet Taste off.
Trophy – Champion Wine, James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge 2023.
Australia’s most significant Annual Cabernet Taste off.
Trophy - Best Cabernet Sauvignon, Hobart 2025
Trophy - Best Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2024
Trophy - Best Red Margaret River 2024
Trophy – Best Wine Margaret River 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Perth 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Perth 2023
Trophy - Best Cabernet Canberra 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Adelaide 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Brisbane 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Brisbane 2023
This isn’t a tasting. It’s a statement.
And if you still think new world doesn’t do world-class Cabernet… this is where that argument ends.
Cullen | Houghton | Mount Mary | Moss Wood | Plantagenet | Te Mata
Vasse Felix | Woodlands | Yalumba | Yarra Yering
Monday, June 1st
Tasting: 4pm – 6pm, 16 Wines with 3 Cheeses, Breads & Gluten Free Crackers | $295
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The Wine List & Menu
Cullen ‘Diana Madeline’ Legacy Series Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2023, Our Price $345
Not many wineries can claim to have three flagship reds, but for Cullens, not a problem. As well as the standard, Diana Madeline, not that there is anything standard about it, we have this wine and then the Vanya. All three were produced in the wonderful 2023 vintage. Obviously, the Diana Madeline is the value play, but the three wines are all different and all spectacular. They each have so much to offer that I couldn’t split them and gave them each 99. I would never argue with anyone who went the extra point, but my concern is that when Vanya tops these, as she surely will, where do you go?
99 Points, Andrew Caillard & Ken Gargett, The Vintage Journal
Don’t be confused. There are two Diana Madeline releases off the ’23 vintage, this the new addition and part of the Legacy Series. And the longer name is Full Moon Opposite Saturn Harvest because the 70% cabernet, with 30% malbec, is off the first pick when the constellations are in that order; co-fermented then aged 15 months in French barriques, 33% new. All that to say, this is both powerful and yet full of elegance. Beautiful fruit marries well with the oak, all superbly integrated. The palate is more mid-weighted, with plentiful yet fine tannins, and finishes persuasively and lingeringly. This is something else; a special wine.
98 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (April 2026)
Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2023, Our Price $47
Every now and then, a wine makes my heart skip a beat. It’s the confluence of all the elements – the aromas, the flavours, how it feels, how it makes me feel, everything perfectly poised. And of course, the X-factor. The magic stuff, which can’t be decoded. Take a bow the wine team at Devil’s Lair. A stalwart producer yet flying under the radar when it really shouldn’t. Here’s the reason why – this is the epitome of elegant Margaret River cabernet. A harmonious blend of mulberries and cassis, baking spices, and cedary oak which is superbly integrated. The mid-weighted palate is finely tuned with beautiful, shapely tannins and acidity stretching out to a lingering finish. Devil’s Lair is on a roll, get onboard. Although, bittersweet as I wish the wonderful Simon Robertson (who passed in '24), its long-time viticulturist could have witnessed the success of this wine.
98 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (March 2025) Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2026
97 Points, James Halliday Cabernet Challenge Winner 2023 Gold Medal – Wine Show of WA Gold Medal - Hobart Royal Wine Show 2025
Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2022, Our Price $47
Trophy – Best Cabernet Margaret River 2024
Trophy - Best Red Margaret River 2024
Trophy – Best Wine Margaret River 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Perth 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Canberra 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Adelaide 2024
Trophy - Best Cabernet Brisbane 2024
Gold Medal – Margaret River 2024
Gold Medal – Perth 2024
Gold Medal – Canberra 2024
Gold Medal – Adelaide 2024
Gold Medal – Brisbane 2024
Quite beautiful cabernet from this excellent year. IT’s generous and opulent with a tremendous intensity of dark fruits, led with blackcurrant black olive dominance, and then yielding to blue and red fruit characters. Has a slightly bay leaf nuance with a cracked sea shell minerality. It’s firm and bold with the structure and power to handle extended cellaring.
95 Points - Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
Forest Hill Block 5 Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Barker 2023, Our Price $79
Trophy – Champion Wine, James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge 2024. Australia’s most significant Annual Cabernet Taste off. There's a haunting beauty to this wine. ... The wine is so very compact, tannins so very fine and high quality, the length of the wine exceptional, … The compact nature of the wine coupled to its refreshment factor is just outstanding. Unreal.
96 Points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Companion
The Forest Hill Block 5 is one of the most underrated Cabernet Sauvignons in Australia. Each vintage I cannot believe that this isn’t a sold-out wine soon after release. …“
96 Points, Cassandra Charlick, Wine Pilot
The 2023 Block 5 Cabernet Sauvignon … It is superb. … This is a really impressive wine.
95 Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate.
Forest Hill Block 5 Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Barker 2022
Quite beautiful cabernet from this excellent year. IT’s generous and opulent with a tremendous intensity of dark fruits, led with blackcurrant black olive dominance, and then yielding to blue and red fruit characters. Has a slightly bay leaf nuance with a cracked sea shell minerality. It’s firm and bold with the structure and power to handle extended cellaring.
98 Points - Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
This is tightly curled in its youth, but its beauty can already be seen. Feminine, complex and perfumed, this speaks of the soil it was grown in and the history of the gnarly vines. Intensity paired with timeless elegance. The fruit sits in the savoury spectrum of sundried tomato, barberries, red apple skin, forest floor and she-oak needles, alongside smoky sage, sea lavender, native rosemary, salted plum and dried nori. The fruit is woven with a thread of graphite, while the fine oak is only lightly seasoned and will settle with time. So much generosity of expression on the palate. Supple, the tannins are firm yet malleable and finely chewable. The structure is superb. A deeply expressive wine that is sure of itself. This is couture. Dry-grown vines, Houghton Clone, planted in 1975.
97 Points - Cassandra Charlick, Decanter (January 2024)
Grosset ‘Gaia’ Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc, Clare Valley 2024, Our Price $95
Houghton ‘Jack Mann’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Frankland River 2021, Our Price $178
Halliday Wine Companion Cabernet Of the Year 2025 This is elegance personified. So smooth, so luscious, so rich and yet it finds levity and a sense of drive. … It feels quite tightly wound despite its velvety suppleness and flow, tannins in a web of fine, graphite-like mineral accents delivering tension and poise. It's a wine that delivers an experience and visceral pleasure. …
98 Points, Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2024)
Cherubino ‘Budworth’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Frankland River 2019, Our Price $134
… This fragrant, medium-bodied cabernet is something quite special. …
98 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2023)
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2023, Our Price $148
I've been waiting for this wine to be released for some time. I had great expectation that this wonderful vineyard from this exceptional vintage would produce something equally exceptional. Well, guess what? It has. This is such a beautiful example of what Moss Wood cabernet is all about. There's nothing big and brutish here. This is elegance. This is precision. This is brilliance. High-end florals on the nose with traces of violet, red currant, and then on the palate, that beautiful, restrained suppleness that deceived so many people in the early years of Moss Wood reveals itself, and yet as always, there's a deep and lingering intensity that persists through to an exceptionally long finish. This is simply stunning. I do not believe there has been a better Moss Wood.
99 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au (April 2026)
99 Points, Ken Gargett, Winepilot (April 2026) 98 Points, Angus Hughson, Winepilot (April 2026)
The finest, longest and most elegant & restrained Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon to date.
19.3 Points, John Jens.
Mount Mary ‘Quintet’ Cabernet Blend, Yarra Valley 2023, Our Price $201
The palate is mid-weighted, with finely integrated tannins and balanced acidity leading into a textural, rounded and seamless mouthfeel. There’s an excellent balance of fruit, florals, earth and herbs, anchored by a mineral core. This Bordeaux blend with New World freshness is built for the ages, yet offers plenty of early drinking appeal. What a wine.
98 Points, James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (August 2025)
98 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (November 2025)
97 Points, Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2025)
97 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (October 2025)
Plantagenet ‘Lionel Samson’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Barker 2018, Our Price $174
One of the greatest & rarest Great Southern Cabernets of all time - alongside the finest of Forest Hill, the Howard Park Abercrombies & the Houghton Jack Manns. JJ First release of this premium cabernet. Fruit is sourced from the Wyjup vineyard, planted in 1971. … Elegance and longevity live here side by side. A masterful first release, and quite delicious now or in decades to come.
97 Points, Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion (September 2021)
Te Mata Estate ‘Coleraine’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Hawke’s Bay 2024, Our Price $144
“… flavours saturate the palate which is beautifully balanced by abundant fine-grained tannins that run the full length of the palate and provide a very long lasting and resonant farewell. Oak is so well handled as to be only just perceptible, adding to the cedary touches. An utterly delicious cabernet blend and a top vintage of this wine.”
98 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (February 2026)
98 Points, James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (January 2026)
97 Points, Stephen Wong, The Real Review (February 2026)
Vasse Felix ‘Tom Cullity’ Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec, Margaret River 2020 (Magnum), Our Price $402
The nose is wonderfully complex and perfumed with aromas of blackcurrants, violets, wild blackberries, graphite and eucalyptus. The full-bodied palate has seamless tannins and focused acidity, giving notes of mulberries, mocha, dried herbs and saltbush. Very refined and polished with an underlying power. Made from a blend of 81% cabernet sauvignon, 16% malbec and 3% petit verdot. Excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
97 Points, James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (October 2024)
Let’s look at this closely. It is an under-appreciated release based on the points below. This is very close to the finest Tom Cullity – and one of Margaret River’s, and Australia’s, finest Cabernets.
19.3 Points, JJ
97 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (October 2025)
96 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (May 2024)
17.5+/20 Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com (October 2024)
Woodlands ‘Eleanor’ Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2020, Our Price $154
Top 100 Wines, Halliday Wine Companion, 2024
I love this wine. Everything is in perfect harmony. So much flavour and depth yet it is elegant and feels effortless. ... There’s as much a latent power here as beauty. The latter to impress now, the former to ensure the wine ages. One of the finest wines from Woodlands to date. Bravo.
98 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2024) 98 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (February 2024)
Yalumba ‘The Caley’ Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz, Coonawarra & Barossa Valley 2018, Our Price $439
Halliday Wine Companion Cabernet Shiraz Blend of the Year 2024
… Tremendously long finish. A magnificent wine, which has what it takes to age and reward cellaring for the long term.
99 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (March 2023)
The Caley has quickly established itself as a benchmark for the classic cabernet/shiraz blend…
98 Points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion (May 2023)
97 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (August 2023)
18/20 Points, Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com (September 2025)
Tyson Stelzer says that the 2021 is one of Australia’s greatest reds …In that case, this is at least the second in the range to be given that accolade …as I believe that of this vintage!
John Jens 19.3+ Points
Yarra Yering ‘Dry Red Wine No. 1’, Yarra Valley 2023, Our Price $148
2026 Cabernet & Blends of the Year. Score awarded by the Halliday tasting panel at the annual Awards judging.
99 Points, Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2025)
Cabernet & Blends of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion 2026
97 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review (June 2025)