Yalumba The Caley 2014

It’s a pretty epic wine. You can’t escape its multi-dimensional feel. Textures, layers of flavour, intensity in that core of fruit, sumptuous and then strict, a wine that carries gravitas by the glass. Regal scents and flavours of mahogany-cedar, fine, new leather, black olive and saltbush, ripe but fresh dark cherry and mixed forest berry fruits. Ripples of luxurious, long, rough silk tannins shape the wine and draw in far, far away. The finish is pert and tightens gradually. It’s a classy, elegant, powerful wine with an immediate sense of pedigree. So polished, perhaps missing an edge? I like it now, actually, though I imagine many will fancy blowing the dust off the elaborate decoration boxes in the distance.