Best's Great Western Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

One of the greatest things about the Great Western wine region is its ability to successfully grow a broad range of grape varieties. Shiraz may be the regional hero, but Cabernet Sauvignon from the area can lay almost equal claim.

Best’s Great Western Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 vintage is a fine example of the Great Western Regional style; showing rich, mocha and berry fruit with a solid mid-palate weight thanks to superbly concentrated fruit. Winery Notes.

Reviews & Awards

Trophy 'Best Cabernet Sauvignon' - 2017 Victorian Wine Show
Gold Medal - 95 Points - 2018 Royal Melbourne Wine Awards
Gold Medal - 2018 Royal Queensland Wine Show

"86% cabernet sauvignon, 4% merlot, shiraz and cabernet franc, destemmed, a mix of fermentation vessels, matured for 12 months in used French oak. Strong crimson-purple; pure, intense and long, cassis to the fore, black olive and firm, but ripe tannins. Best’s is having a ball."
95 Points - James Halliday Wine Companion 2019

"An impressive cabernet that has reached good ripeness, offering dark cherries in a brambly mode. The tannins are sleek, glossy and very smoothly rendered. Fresh black fruits from start to finish here. Impressive. Drink or hold."
93 Points - JamesSuckling.com

"Deep, youthful red/purple hue. The blackberry aromas are sweetly ripe and rich, full-bodied and deep with abundant tannins - but they're good tannins, smooth and reasonably ripe. There is a touch of astringency but it's one of the better wines in its price-range this vintage."
92 Points - Huon Hooke

"Cabernet Sauvignon from the Great Western/Grampians region. It doesn’t have anywhere near the cache of shiraz from the region, but it can be good.
It’s an elegant study of a wine. It’s herbal and undergrowthy with garden mint and associated greenery contributing to the main flow of blackcurrant and black olives. There’s a gently bitter note to the aftertaste, tonic-like, but it feels and tastes ripe throughout and indeed there’s a softness to the texture, helped in part by resiny/cream oak (the latter in modest measure). You’d have to say that it’s pretty good, and that it will improve with time."
91 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front