Mount Mary Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends Wines

Deep crimson purple colour with crimson mauve hue. The nose is very perfumed and displays classic Bordeaux refinement with lifted aromas of violets, blackcurrant, cedar and spice, followed by a hint of cigar box. Medium weight with flavours of violets, cedar, blackcurrant, mulberry and spice with cigar box end notes. Displaying great elegance and refinement with excellent depth. Very fine grained tannins, perfect balance, with very long aftertaste of spice, blackcurrant and cedar with some cigar box notes to finish.

Deep crimson purple colour with crimson mauve hue. The nose is very perfumed and displays classic Bordeaux refinement with lifted aromas of violets, blackcurrant, cedar and spice, followed by a hint of cigar box. Medium weight with flavours of violets, cedar, blackcurrant, mulberry and spice with cigar box end notes. Displaying great elegance and refinement with excellent depth. Very fine grained tannins, perfect balance, with very long aftertaste of spice, blackcurrant and cedar with some cigar box notes to finish.

In true Mount Mary style this is all about understated elegance. It seems a little closed up at the moment, but Mount Marys are built to last so this needs keeping to be at its best. At present it offers a subtle, aromatic nose reminiscent of blackcurrant pastilles, flowers and leaves. Oak provides a cedary backdrop. The palate is fragrant with delicate flavours, great length and fine tannins. Perfect with pink baby racks of lamb.

Lovely palate weight and structure. Good balance. Strong but pleasant tannins. Very good drinking. One of the best Quintets.

Quite a big Quintet with too much dry tannin at this stage. Could end up like the 1997. Otherwise typical flavours and persistence.

Lots of bright fruit, complex. Well balanced, lots of persistent flavour. Firm tannins but very much in balance. One of the best Quintets, needs more time.

Good weight and flavour if a little herbaceous. Strong tannins, too young and needs time. Good acidity and structure.

Quite aromatic. Nicely weighted palate. Fine but persistent tannins that will improve with more time.

Very complex and clean aroma. Good flavours and richness, lots of good ripe tannins, medium bodied, nice balance, needs more time.

Artfully made, pliant and silky, this long and finely textured red has a deep, alluring perfume of violets, cassis, sweet red berries and blackberries knit with fresh, tight-grained dusty oak and backed by suggestions of briar and dark chocolate. It's slightly confiture-like, with a hint of currant, sour cherry and dried herbs beneath its elegant, finely crafted palate of vibrant dark plum and small berry flavour. Very good indeed, but perhaps an earlier-maturing release from this faster-ripening season.

Never has Mount Mary declassified its flagship Quintet. Until 2009. If there is any influence of bushfire here, it is an exceedingly subtle wisp of smoke. The warm, dry conditions of the season clearly did not stress cabernet and its friends like they did pinot noir, and the result is a triumph for the vintage and an enjoyable, if earlier drinking, Quintet. At a discount of $100 a bottle, it's a good buy. Impressive top notes of dried flowers and violets open into pure blackcurrant and cassis, against a backdrop of ripe blackberries, tobacco leaf and cigar box. A primary, almost juicy fruit intensity to the front palate quickly pulls into a harmonious, lingering finish of finely structure...

Quintet is unique among cabernet blends for its effortless, harmonious, silky, graceful approachability, making for enticing appeal and inherent longevity. Deep black fruit character meets medium-bodied restraint.

There is an effortless, harmonious, silky, graceful approachability to Quintet that makes it enticingly appealing and instantly recognisable. This is cabernet sauvignon (almost half) and friends (one third merlot, a good dose of cabernet franc and a dash of petit verdot and malbec) of perfectly ripe, deep black fruit character, yet utterly restrained at a refreshingly medium-bodied 12.7% alcohol. Blackberries, blackcurrants and dried flowers are all recognisable from the outset, before a slowly rising intensity of refined violet and rose petal perfume emerges. Fruit definition is encased in an unashamedly elegant shell, with acid and tannin seamlessly integrated; at once tart and refreshi...

Made from all five of Bordeaux's noble red grapes, Mount Mary's Quintet blend is one of Australia's most collectable reds. While Margaret River may have the fruit, and Coonawarra the structure, no other Australian Cabernet blend attains quite the perfume like that found in Mount Mary's Quintet.

Deep, rich, perfect palate. Great balance and length. Dense, mouth filling tannins. One of the best quintets.

Lean, slightly acid balance, lighter weight, a little watery, metallic. May have been a bad bottle, unfortunately we didnt have enough of this one to open another one.

Good balance and length, slightly metallic tannins but ok.

Strong tannins, good body and length though. Quite drying tannins, would suit fatty foods. Lovely acidity.

Good mid-palate weight, seamless tannins. Very long and tight. Complex flavour.

A typical flavour of wood and smoke. Typical Quintet palate.