Lively, ripe and intense red and black fruits on the nose, accompanied by sandalwood, tumeric, bay leaf and tobacco. The palate is multilayered, lush, languid and warm, boasting sweet and savoury fruits, ripe tannins, fantastically integrated oak and a lovely, refreshing finish. Top-notch Australian fare. Not available in the UK or USA‘OPULENCE’ and ‘EUCALYPT-SCENTED black fruit’ were just some of the characteristics of this Australian red blend, which wowed the judges in a three-way taste-off with Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Apalta sub-region in Chile’s Colchagua region. McWilliam’s 1877 is both a ‘new’ Australian wine and a traditional blend. New because some of the Cabernet Sauvignon for this Shiraz-Cabernet comes from Hilltops, a ...
Lively, ripe and intense red and black fruits on the nose, accompanied by sandalwood, tumeric, bay leaf and tobacco. The palate is multilayered, lush, languid and warm, boasting sweet and savoury fruits, ripe tannins, fantastically integrated oak and a lovely, refreshing finish. Top-notch Australian fare. Not available in the UK or USA‘OPULENCE’ and ‘EUCALYPT-SCENTED black fruit’ were just some of the characteristics of this Australian red blend, which wowed the judges in a three-way taste-off with Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Apalta sub-region in Chile’s Colchagua region. McWilliam’s 1877 is both a ‘new’ Australian wine and a traditional blend. New because some of the Cabernet Sauvignon for this Shiraz-Cabernet comes from Hilltops, a ...