Mount Horrocks Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Reviews

Winsor Dobbin, Ciao Magazine

Classy cabernet  – Mount Horrocks 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon

By Winsor Dobbin

The Clare Valley – and Mount Horrocks – are home to some of Australia’s finest rieslings, but Stephanie Toole also produces hugely impressive Nero d’Avola and this beguiling young cabernet. This is estate-grown and sourced from a single vineyard, deftly crafted to result in a wine that has coiled power and immediate dark appeal. Forest notes, blackcurrant and well-integrated oak are to the fore in a downright delicious red that can confidently be cellared.Share with a loved one, or a fillet steak.

28th April 2020

The Real Review

2018 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

By Nick Butler

95 Points

Loads of colour – dense purple. It ticks all of the cabernet aroma boxes, with a tease of regional eucalypt. While ripe and easily carrying rich blackberry and purple-berried fruits, it’s quietly aristocratic, with dried herbs and cedar ahead of supple tannins. Approachable now and will reward time tucked away

Drink 2020-2028

The Real Review

2017 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

By Huon Hooke

95 Points

Good, clean cabernet aromas, fresh and cassisy, with background vanilla and violet but little sign of vegetal notes. The wine is medium to full-bodied and elegantly-framed, with freshness and energy, harmony and precision. An excellent young cabernet.

The Real Review

May 2019

Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

93 Points

By Tyson Stelzer

Great depth and density of blackcurrent and cassis fruit is overlaid with lifted rose hip and capsicum, making for a consummately varietal Cabernet. It’s slick, glossy and yet confidently structured, with firm fine tannins promising classic Mount Horrocks potential.

WBM Trade Magazine

May/June 2019

Sunday Telegraph

2017 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

By John Fordham 

A wine showcasing the immense standing this regal variety enjoys in the Clare Valley. Owner-winemaker Stephanie Toole has again excelled with her attention to detail in fruit selection and oak maturation. A five-star effort oozing refined rich and toasty flavours that have you drooling to the final drop.

Sunday Telegraph 19^th May

Halliday Wine Companion

2016 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

95 Points

By Campbell Mattinson

Two of the most beautiful words in the English language, when used in tandem, are ‘medium-bodied’. Or that’s what a wine like this makes you think. It’s cabernet sauvignon in effortless mode, its curranty, brambly, toasty flavours travelling through the palate in calm, confident style. Something of a masterclass.

James Halliday Wine Companion 2019

Sunday Telegraph

2016 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

By John Fordham

A seamless combination of low-yielding, organically-grown fruit and partial new French oak maturation, qualifies this medium-bodied Clare Valley red for top drawer rating. Flavour definition, texture and length ensure a rewarding and magical palate journey.

Sunday Telegraph 6^th May

James Halliday Wine Companion 2018

Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

95 Points

The gleaming purple-crimson colour waves the flag for a pure, medium-bodied cabernet that captures the mouth with its delicious cassis fruit, a wisp of bay leaf, ultra-fine, but persistent, tannins and French oak. 

By James Halliday

95 Points, 5 Stars

2015 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

By James Halliday

95 Points

Clare Valley cabernet is seldom deficient in impact, but it’s usually rustic. Wendouree one exception, and this (albeit in a different mode) is another.  The gleaming crimson-purple colour waves the flag for a pure, medium-bodied cabernet that captures the mouth with its delicious cassis fruit, a wisp of bay leaf, ultra-fine, but persistent, tannins and integrated French oak.

Wine Companion Magazine
August/September 2017

Winefront

2015 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvigonon

94 Points

Clare Valley cabernet sauvignon rules/rides again.

This is the best red in the Mount Horrocks range this year; again. It has that extra lick of tannin, that extra push through the finish. There are some reductive characters here, in a good way, which help to bolster the medium-weight flow of curranty fruit. Both silken-texture and a general sturdiness are key positive traits. It isn’t ‘big’ by any stretch. It’s a kind of Claret/luncheon style of cabernet, composed and at one with itself, and should mature beautifully.

By Campbell Mattison

March 17th

winefront.com.au

WineFront

2014 Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon

94+ POINTS

By Campbell Mattison

Essence of cabernet. One for the cellar. Not particularly deep – though it’s deep enough – but most importantly it’s balanced, complex and lengthy. Dust, woodsmoke, boysenberry, cloves, redcurrant. It stretches its legs out beautifully along the palate, and out through the finish. Strings of herbs and presses of mint. Old school varietal character, served super fresh.

April 2016

winefront.com.au

Source SA

Mount Horrocks 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon

5 Stars

By Tony Love

While cabernet’s great gift is its distinctive, and often exuberant dark berry aromatic lift, this offers a more gentle push, which is in line with the overall sophisticated personality of this certified organic wine. It’s open to lovely earthly and forest floor leaf notes, even faint charcuterie complexities, but it all comes back to rich, dark blackberry flavor familiarity in a medium to full bodied drive train. Composed, quiet, accomplished.

11^th May 2016

The Advertiser, Source SA