2020 Fermoy Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
The Decanter World Wine Awards is regarded as the world’s largest and most influential wine competition.
Judged by top wine experts, Best in Show is the highest accolade in the competition, awarded only to the top 50 (0.27%) wines of the show, out of more than 18,000 entries from across the world.
Trophy - Best in Show
97 Points, 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Do Cabernet Sauvignon and Margaret River go together? Well, it’s the fourth time that the combination has been featured in our Best In Show selection – so yes, they do. Three of those laureates, intriguingly, have come from the high-quality, low-quantity 2020 vintage – and if this wine is anything to go by, it’s a vintage which is taking its time to reach even early maturity.
This wine remains an opaque black-red in colour, with admirably pure and restrained aromas of shapely blackcurrant lent freshening complexity by bush and scrub notes – a single sniff is transporting. The wine is concentrated and refined on the palate. Not merely fruity, though there is plenty of that ‘noble’ blackcurrant to enjoy, but the fruit is lent shade and nuance by the biotope allusions evident on the nose. The tannins and acids are measured and proportionate; the ripeness well-judged; and the wine moves through the mouth with easy, drinkable grace.
Trophies & Medals:
Best in Show - 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2022 & 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Halliday Cabernet Challenge
Gold - 2023 Sydney Royal Wine Show
Gold - 2023 Wine Show of WA
Gold - 2022 WA Boutique & Single Vineyard Wine Show
95 points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion 2023
It might be a reserve wine, but there’s no need to wait. It would be hard to, anyway, as this is gorgeous. Superfine and long with powdery tannins; there’s latent power almost within yet it hovers around medium bodied. It’s structured and detailed, laden with flavour and the oak makes its presence known but not overtly so – it adds cedar and antique wood aromas plus another layer of tannins. There are also mulberries and blueberries and a kitchen cupboard full of spices. Take it all in. Slowly.
Drink 2024-2040
The Decanter World Wine Awards is regarded as the world’s largest and most influential wine competition.
Judged by top wine experts, Best in Show is the highest accolade in the competition, awarded only to the top 50 (0.27%) wines of the show, out of more than 18,000 entries from across the world.
Trophy - Best in Show
97 Points, 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Do Cabernet Sauvignon and Margaret River go together? Well, it’s the fourth time that the combination has been featured in our Best In Show selection – so yes, they do. Three of those laureates, intriguingly, have come from the high-quality, low-quantity 2020 vintage – and if this wine is anything to go by, it’s a vintage which is taking its time to reach even early maturity.
This wine remains an opaque black-red in colour, with admirably pure and restrained aromas of shapely blackcurrant lent freshening complexity by bush and scrub notes – a single sniff is transporting. The wine is concentrated and refined on the palate. Not merely fruity, though there is plenty of that ‘noble’ blackcurrant to enjoy, but the fruit is lent shade and nuance by the biotope allusions evident on the nose. The tannins and acids are measured and proportionate; the ripeness well-judged; and the wine moves through the mouth with easy, drinkable grace.
Trophies & Medals:
Best in Show - 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2022 & 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Halliday Cabernet Challenge
Gold - 2023 Sydney Royal Wine Show
Gold - 2023 Wine Show of WA
Gold - 2022 WA Boutique & Single Vineyard Wine Show
95 points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion 2023
It might be a reserve wine, but there’s no need to wait. It would be hard to, anyway, as this is gorgeous. Superfine and long with powdery tannins; there’s latent power almost within yet it hovers around medium bodied. It’s structured and detailed, laden with flavour and the oak makes its presence known but not overtly so – it adds cedar and antique wood aromas plus another layer of tannins. There are also mulberries and blueberries and a kitchen cupboard full of spices. Take it all in. Slowly.
Drink 2024-2040
The Decanter World Wine Awards is regarded as the world’s largest and most influential wine competition.
Judged by top wine experts, Best in Show is the highest accolade in the competition, awarded only to the top 50 (0.27%) wines of the show, out of more than 18,000 entries from across the world.
Trophy - Best in Show
97 Points, 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Do Cabernet Sauvignon and Margaret River go together? Well, it’s the fourth time that the combination has been featured in our Best In Show selection – so yes, they do. Three of those laureates, intriguingly, have come from the high-quality, low-quantity 2020 vintage – and if this wine is anything to go by, it’s a vintage which is taking its time to reach even early maturity.
This wine remains an opaque black-red in colour, with admirably pure and restrained aromas of shapely blackcurrant lent freshening complexity by bush and scrub notes – a single sniff is transporting. The wine is concentrated and refined on the palate. Not merely fruity, though there is plenty of that ‘noble’ blackcurrant to enjoy, but the fruit is lent shade and nuance by the biotope allusions evident on the nose. The tannins and acids are measured and proportionate; the ripeness well-judged; and the wine moves through the mouth with easy, drinkable grace.
Trophies & Medals:
Best in Show - 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards
Gold - 2022 & 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
Gold - 2023 Halliday Cabernet Challenge
Gold - 2023 Sydney Royal Wine Show
Gold - 2023 Wine Show of WA
Gold - 2022 WA Boutique & Single Vineyard Wine Show
95 points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion 2023
It might be a reserve wine, but there’s no need to wait. It would be hard to, anyway, as this is gorgeous. Superfine and long with powdery tannins; there’s latent power almost within yet it hovers around medium bodied. It’s structured and detailed, laden with flavour and the oak makes its presence known but not overtly so – it adds cedar and antique wood aromas plus another layer of tannins. There are also mulberries and blueberries and a kitchen cupboard full of spices. Take it all in. Slowly.
Drink 2024-2040
DETAILS
PRODUCER - Fermoy Estate
VINTAGE - 2021
VARIETAL - Cabernet Sauvignon
COUNTRY - Australia
REGION - Wilyabrup, Margaret River
BOTTLE SIZE - 750ml
