The West Australian Wine Guide 2014

The Cape Mentelle cabernets just get better each year. This one is right in there with the best of them. The 2010 was outstanding, but this brings a greater depth and fruit concentration into the palate while retaining that beautifully elegant design which has become a feature of these wines. Dusty powdery tannins, medium-weight concentrated fruit and such beautiful oak treatment. Takes cabernet to an art form.

Wine Taste

For the warmest vintage in a decade in Margaret River, it retains impeccably vibrancy and unwavering poise amidst considerable power and solid, generous concentration. Firm, fine tannins propel an enduring finish, promising great longevity. [...] It works, defining delightful violet fragrance over a core of blackcurrant fruit and coffee bean oak.

The Wine Front

White Knight, nori, blackcurrant, mulberry and mocha – fragrant and regional. It’s medium bodied but shows lovely shape and control though the mouth – tannin work is spot on here – as is the length and freshness. Sitting on the cusp of under and over ripe, though I’m not on the fence here – I’m emphatic – here’s a stylish and superbly age-worthy Margaret River Cabernet you can trust. Yet another fine release you’ve got me into Cape Mentelle.

The Australian Wine Annual 2014

Very stylish and artfully balanced, with alluring aromas of cassis, mulberries, dark cherries and cedar/chocolate/vanilla oak backed by dusty nuances of forest floor. Long and extremely elegant, it’s finely crafted and rather disciplined, with a pure, pristine and deeply layered presence of small berries, plums and cherries, knit with fine-grained new oak and a firm, gravelly spine. It finishes with excellent length, a measured persistence and slatey minerality.

Jamessuckling.com

A rich, confident and darkly fruited wine that has brambly foresty notes, dark roasting herbs and a savory note of freshly cast concrete, nicely augmented by creamy, spicy oak. The palate’s packed with dark cabernet fruit. The tannins are bold and sweeping, written with a thicker line weight than more Northerly Margaret River cabernet wines. Drink in 2018.

Australian Wine Companion 2014

Bright purple-crimson; the fragrant red and black berry bouquet leads into a complex, medium- to full-bodied palate; here cassis, black olive and a hint of tar melt with French oak and cabernet tannins standing guard to protect a long life.