Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

International Wine Challenge 2025 | GOLD 95 points

For information regarding previous vintages please contact the winery on info@foresterestate.com.au

Pricing

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Vintage	2024
Grape Variety	97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot
Oak maturation	14 months – 28% new, 72% two and three year old French oak barriques
Alcohol	14.5% Alc/Vol
Release date	July 2025
Colour	Deep red with purple hue.
Aroma	Lifted with fresh characters of cassis, mulberry, bay leaf and lavender along with gravel dust and balanced cedar oak.
Palate	Long with a tight and focused drive, fine chalky tannins and balanced acidity. There’s cassis, mulberry, bay leaf and sage with a subtle lavender perfume and balanced cedar oak. A restrained wine from a ripe and powerful year.
Food matches	Traditional roast lamb with rosemary.
Peak drinking	Drinking well now but will develop further in the bottle through until 2034. The wine will benefit from decanting before drinking.

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Viticulture

Picked from a selection of super premium cabernet vineyards at our disposal including a portion of open lyre trellis. As always, meticulous management of bud numbers and shoot thinning ensure a balanced canopy to ripen the crop. The vines grow in the well regarded gravelly/granite soils of Northern Margaret River and are allowed to reach full ripeness before harvesting. The 2024 growing season was warm and dry which led to an early harvest. Our best Cabernet blocks were harvested between the 23rd of February and the 14th of March.

Winemaking

The fruit was harvested in the morning, delivered to the winery and was processed straight away on receival. Fermentation was controlled at 25-29 degrees Celsius in our small open fermenters with heading down boards. Extraction was achieved by daily draining of the wine away from the skins and returning back over the top, with fermentation and maceration times varying from 5 to 25 days. The wine was then pressed to a blend of new and older French oak barriques to complete malo – lactic fermentation.

Storage / Bottling

Maturation lasted 14 months before the wine was bottled in July 2025. Bottled under screw cap to ensure the wine retains its varietal and regional integrity for longer.

Awards & Achievements

2024 Cabernet Sauvignon

2023 Cabernet Sauvignon

Wine Show of WA Mount Barker 2024 | GOLD
Perth Royal Wine Awards 2024 | Silver
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2024 | Silver

2022 Cabernet Sauvignon

2021 Cabernet Sauvignon

Decanter World Wine Awards 2023 | Silver – 90 points
Ray Jordan Wine Guide 2023 | 93 points
London International Wine Challenge 2023 | Bronze

2020 Cabernet Sauvignon

2022 James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge – TROPHY WINNER
2022 James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge – TOP GOLD – Best Of Region- Margaret River – 97 points
Wine Show of WA Mount Barker 2022 | GOLD
Perth Royal Wine Awards 2022 | GOLD
Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2022 | GOLD
Australian Small Wine Makers Show 2022 | GOLD
Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022 | Silver
Royal Hobart Wine Show 2022 | Silver
Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 | Silver
National Wine Show of Australia 2022 | Bronze 92 points
Sydney Royal Wine Show 2022 | Bronze
Margaret River Wine Show 2022 | Bronze
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2022 | Bronze

2019 Cabernet Sauvignon

2018 Cabernet Sauvignon

James Halliday Wine Companion | 92 Points
Wine Show of Western Australia 2020 | Silver
Perth Royal Wine Awards 2020 | Silver
Winestate Magazine, Best of Varietal | 4 Stars

2017 Cabernet Sauvignon

2016 Cabernet Sauvignon

2015 Cabernet Sauvignon

James Halliday Wine Companion | 94 Points
BLUE GOLD – Sydney Int Wine Competition 2018
95 Points – Ray Jordan West Australian Wine Guide 2018
Silver – Wine Show of Western Australia 2017
Bronze – International Wine & Spirits Competition 2017
Bronze – Royal Sydney Wine Show 2017
Bronze – London International Wine Challenge 2017
Bronze – Royal Perth Wine Show 2017

2014 Cabernet Sauvignon

TROPHY – CHAMPION RED WINE Australian Small Winemakers Show 2016
TROPHY – CHAMPION VITICULTURIST Australian Small Winemakers Show 2016
BLUE GOLD – Sydney Int Wine Competition 2016
TOP 100 – Sydney Int Wine Competition 2016
James Halliday Wine Companion | 95 Points
GOLD -Australian Small Winemakers Show 2016
GOLD – Halliday Cabernet Challenge 2016
GOLD – Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2016
GOLD – Royal Queensland Wine Show 2016
GOLD – National Wine Show of Australia 2016
GOLD – Margaret River Wine Show 2016
GOLD – London International Wine Challenge 2016
Silver – Sydney Royal Wine Show 2016
Silver – International Wine & Spirits Competition 2016

2013 Cabernet Sauvignon

James Halliday Wine Companion | 96 Points

Silver Medal – International Wine & Spirit Competition 2015
Bronze Medal – International Wine Challenge 2015
Bronze Medal – Sydney Royal Wine Show 2015
Bronze Medal – Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2015
94 Points – Wine Showcase Magazine 2015

2012 Cabernet Sauvignon

James Halliday Wine Companion | (Top Cellaring Selection) – 96 Points
4 Stars – Winestate Magazine, September 2014
Silver Medal – Margaret River Wine Show 2014
Silver Medal – International Wine & Spirits Challenge 2014
Silver Medal – International Wine Challenge 2014

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