98 points - Erin Larkin for The Wine Advocate, March 2025

“It's is aromatic and leafy and layered with cassis, flaked milk chocolate, cracked peppercorns, nori sheets and mulberry. This has everything aromatically, but it is in the mouth where the tannins steal the show. This is elegant, finely milled, soft in its way—pliable and ductile, not "soft"—and so long through the finish. It's a remarkable wine, made all the more remarkable by its élevage in a large-format old oak vat (1,600 liters), which allows the fruit and the natural tannins to really shine. It is 100% berry sorted and fermented and aged in old oak. This is the lowest pH Cabernet made from this Corymbia vineyard in Calgardup in Margaret River, and it is also the greatest. It is a statement and a pleasure. My emphatic advice is to find it if you can.”

This wine embodies our heritage, our future and our dreams. The realisation of a dream seeded by Rob’s grandfather, Jack Mann. Rob recalls being allowed to taste a 1971 Houghton Cabernet at dinner with Jack and his wife Angela at just 10 years old and decided there and then that Cabernet was his future. It’s a privilege to see that dream come to life. Unorthodox in style, this is a unique expression of Margaret River Cabernet.

The fifth release of Corymbia Cabernet Sauvignon, from our Margaret River Calgardup Vineyard. The vineyard is positioned towards the southern end of Margaret River, just 2km inland from Redgate Beach. It sits surrounded by native bush and the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. After 15 years of searching, we are now the custodians of this land. Calgardup Vineyard sits atop an ancient granite outcrop, weathered over 1.2 billion years of time, to reveal a Keenan gravel loam that is perfectly suited to growing Cabernet Sauvignon. The purity, delineate fruit characters and graphite framework are the hallmarks of this site. Variety, place and experience woven together to redefine what’s possible.