Cabernet Malbec Wines

Tyrrell’s prove here that they can make wines with a bit of grunt instead of the elegant Hunter Styles they have crafted for over 150 years. Made with fruit from the McLaren Vale it mixes the structure of Cabernet with the power and spice of Malbe...

Very deep, dark red/purple/black colour, impressive. Black fruits and traces of mint and pepper with a hint of licorice and ironstone. A serious wine. Intense, tight palate with refinement and structure. Good grip and in harmony with the flavours....

Love this combination of varieties which consistently shows the virtues of malbec as a blending component. This is superb. Lift leafy floral notes on the nose with some dusty cedary oak just in the back ground. The palate is so effortlessly long w...

Silky and elegant, building depth and structure towards the back of the palate, this finely crafted and balanced cabernet reveals a sweet, earthy and floral bouquet of cassis, raspberries and redcurrants. It's long and supple with a tightly knit, ...

Cabernet malbec blends are part of the grand tradition of the Clare Valley - it's great to see Tim Adams labelling a wine this way. Fabulous. The glory of Clare Valley cabernet, in a glass. Lots of earthy tannin, lots of curranty-leathery fruit ...

Houghton is a historic and much-loved Australian wine name, and while it's good at the 'affordable' end of the market, its top-end gear can be brilliant. This is a new wine to the range. Impressive debut. In fact you get the impression that this...

Good colour; a rich and generous bouquet leads into a medium- to full-bodied palate, the cabernet and malbec flavours wielding similar synergy to Wendouree, filling in all the notes in the line of the palate.

Another superb wine sourced from the Kosovich Pemberton vineyards. Has a floral red fruit character on the nose with lifted mint and cedar influences. Typical of the Kosovich style, oak is used with finesse so as not to compromise the essential fr...

This blend is traditional enough in parts of Bordeaux, but less common in Australia; the wine spent 18 months in French oak, and the end result is very good; the colour is still fresh, the black and red berry, plum and cedar flavours are neatly su...

Has held onto its youthful colour; an 80/20% blend that spent 24 months in French oak puncheons; it shows no sign of the toughness of the vintage, instead offering an array of black fruit flavours unique to Clare Valley cabernet malbec (Wendouree ...

Still has some purple hues in the colour. Slight licorice bouquet. Good integration, balance and persistence of varietal flavours.

Mulberry aromas mingle with light oak characters. More light oak on the simple palate.

Peppery, floral aromas and a rich, creamy palate with herbal/blackcurrant flavours. Good weight and length.

Encapsulating monumental poise and power, Tim Adams showcases crunchy blackcurrants and black cherries, leaf and mixed spice with seamless, mouth-filling, bullet-proof intensity and energetic, confident tannins. Patience.

Stephen George must have exercised Jedi self control to hold back for a full decade the signature blend of the Clare Valley, from one of the most legendary vineyards of the region, sourced primarily from the "newer" Wendouree plantings of 1911. Su...

An especially stylish, fine-grained and elegant expression of the Jack Mann style scented with sweet red cherry, berries, cassis and plum backed by finely integrated chocolate and cedary oak, and lifted by aromas of rose petals and violets. It's ...