The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time is a selection of barrels from all three single vineyards, held back for extended maturation. This year, the wine aged in wood for 48 months. Marked by typical cigar box aromas, it also delivers plenty of cherries, vanilla and a hint of cassis. It's full-bodied, rich and undeniably woody, yet still retains ample freshness and length. It reminds me a bit of some Riojas, for its wood presence and elegance, but with more power and fruit weight, like some of Chris RIngland's long-aged releases of Barossa Shiraz. Idiosyncratic but delicious, it's another top-class effort from proprietor Jayson Woodbridge.

Having spent 48 months in French oak barrels, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time displays a deep garnet color, spilling out of the glass with evocative, entrancing notes of dried rose petals, molten licorice, dark chocolate, wild mushrooms and rare beef, over a crème de cassis and stewed plums core. The palate is full-bodied, exotic, rich and so, so plush, featuring beautifully balanced freshness and a very long, fragrant earth-laced finish. It is delicious and impressive right now, but it would also be incredible to watch this evolve over the next 25-30 years.

The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time spent 48 months in French oak barrels. Deep garnet in color, it offers a profound fragrance of potpourri, star anise, sautéed herbs, rusty nails and cigar box, over a core of blackcurrant preserves and prunes, plus a waft of crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate is concentrated and satiny, offering exhilarating layers of of exotic spice and incense-spiked black fruit preserves, finishing with amazing length and depth. It is ready to drink now and should continue to evolve and cellar over the next 25 years+.

Medium garnet colored, the 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time sings of violets and red roses with a core of cherries and black raspberries plus wafts of spice cake and tobacco. The rich, densely packed, full-bodied palate is laden with perfumed black fruit layers, textured with wonderfully rounded, seductively soft tannins and has just enough refreshing lift to give the long, spicy finish a heart-pounding BANG!

Medium garnet colored, the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Deep Time slips seductively out of the glass with expressive warm cassis, red currant preserves and Black Forest cake scents on the nose with underlying notes of sautéed herbs, smoked meats and tobacco plus a hint of rose hips. The palate is full-bodied, rich, concentrated and yet exquisitely elegant and beautifully poised, possessing velvety tannins and a gentle underpinning of freshness, finishing long and perfumed.