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A mouthful of dense, rugged tannins sets the pace for this concentrated red, with notes of minerality, dried mushroom...
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Perfumed and aromatic, with layers of Victoria plum, cassis and minty eucalyptus on the nose, heady bramble, cedar...
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Shows wonderful complexity, with notes of black pepper, cedar, tobacco, Kalamata olive, rosemary and sage, which...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $58.26
From a cool year, this is perfumed and intense. With buoyant acidity, the silky, cedar-edged cassis, mulberry,...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $384.41
A towering Cabernet, tightly wrapping its supple, expressive core of currant and boysenberry with subtle hints of...
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Bottle: $60.59
Spicy and stalky, it has the customary black and red berry notes of Cabernet with a perfumed freshness and medium...
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Bottle: $117.78
Fantastic aromas of blackcurrants and other dark fruit with crushed stone, iron and oysters, following through to a...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $107.34
Delicious blackcurrants and plums with light, subtle chocolate and hazelnuts. Full body. Round, chewy tannins and a...
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Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 2017 Australia Chile 750ml

Whilst most of Australia consists of arid deserts and dense bushland, the oceanic coasts to the south of the country have a terrain and climate ideal for vine cultivation and wine production. It took several decades of failed attempts at the end of the 18th century in order to produce vines of a decent enough quality for making wine, but since those first false starts, the Australian wine industry has continued to grow and grow. Today, wine production makes up for a considerable part of the Australian economy, with exports in recent years reaching unprecedented levels and even overtaking France for the first time ever. Whilst the greatest successes in regards to quality have been the result of the Syrah grape varietal (known locally as Shiraz), Australia utilizes several Old World grapes, and has had fantastic results from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay and more. As the Australian passion for locally produced wine continues to develop, wineries have begun experimenting with a wider range of grape varietals, meaning that nowadays it isn't uncommon to find high quality Australian wines made from Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Viognier, amongst many others.

Chile has a long and rich wine history which dates back to the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century, who were the first to discover that the wonderful climate and fertile soils of this South American country were ideal for vine cultivation. It has only been in the past forty or fifty years, however, that Chile as a modern wine producing nation has really had an impact on the rest of the world. Generally relatively cheap in price,Whilst being widely regarded as definitively 'New World' as a wine producing country, Chile has actually been cultivating grapevines for wine production for over five hundred years. The Iberian conquistadors first introduced vines to Chile with which to make sacramental wines, and although these were considerably different in everything from flavor, aroma and character to the wines we associate with Chile today, the country has a long and interesting heritage when it comes to this drink. Chilean wine production as we know it first arose in the country in the mid to late 19th century, when wealthy landowners and industrialists first began planting vineyards as a way of adopting some European class and style. They quickly discovered that the hot climate, sloping mountainsides and oceanic winds provided a perfect terroir for quality wines, and many of these original estates remain today in all their grandeur and beauty, still producing the wines which made the country famous.