This 2015 John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon is level and zen—the tannins are rounded (circular, somehow) and omnipresent. It has incredible vivacity and energy. "This is the first year we installed and implemented it [the berry sorting machine] properly," says Sue Hodder. The fruit and tannins and oak and everything comes together in seamless confluence in the mouth. Wildly impressive. At seven years of age today, this is not yet looking into its first drinking window. If you can abstain a few more years, it would be to your benefit.

Great sheen of ripe fruit. Glossy and round. Intense and with great structure but lovely ripe fruit. Round and racy.