Upper Bench Estate Winery & Creamery Estate Altitude Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

94 | Slightly shy bouquet, hints of red plum, red currant, blueberry. Very plummy, mid-weight with chalky yet ripe tannins. Lingering persistence.

96 | A beautifully perfumed aroma. The fruit is firmly in the red sphere. Raspberries, cranberries and red currants. the mid palate is medium bodied, energetic and supple, bursting with brightness and life.

96 | Dark plum, chocolate, cedar mocha aromas with stonefruit notes. Inky deep and classically structured with smooth dark berry stonefruit flavours, velvet, chocolaty textures and well balanced new oak complexity. Slinky firm finish with sweet fruit, graphite notes.