Irony Small Lot Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

This trusted producer of good-value, balanced, flavour-filled wine doesn't disappoint here. Aromas of dark berry fruit, spice, notions of anise and mint spill from this medium-bodied, heavenly textured gem. There's a salad bowl of palate-bathing flavours ? black bramble berry, ripe mulberry and spice-infused dark, juicy Bing cherry ? interlaced with sweet vanilla and toasty bits from seven months in French and American oak persisting through the balanced, complex, lingering aftertaste. Great value, great wine. Score - 4 1/2 Stars (out of 5). (Vic Harradine, winecurrent.com, May 23, 2014)