The utterly compelling 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate was last year's library release (now sold out at the winery). There's a hint of bricking at the rim, but the wine remains dark to its core and should easily last at least the rest of this decade. Hints of mint and cassis appear on the nose alongside developed notes of beef drippings, leather and cigar box, while the medium to full-bodied palate is fantastically silky and resolved, just a wonderfully elegant mature Cabernet, finishing long and mouthwatering. (JC) - Wine Advocate

Full, bright ruby-red! Pure and complex if subdued on the nose, offering scents of plum, briary dark berries, spice cake and dark chocolate. Densely packed, fine-grained and concentrated, conveying a lovely restrained sweetness and excellent depth of texture. No rough edges here in spite of the wine's seriously firm structure. Intense, sharply delineated mountain berry flavors convey a medicinal reserve, a distinctly savory quality and lovely juicy energy. This Cabernet is still a bit ungiving but its acid backbone and firm but harmonious tannins promise more positive evolution ahead. An excellent showing for this palate-staining wine, which will be long-lived and may yet gain in breadth. (ST) 93+ - Vinous