The fruit for this wine from the excellent 2024 season, was handpicked from our estate plantings. Two selected hogshead barrels with 50 % new, were chosen for this wine. It is named in honour of Maxwell Friend, the grandson of founders Val and Harry Friend. Fermented by wild yeasts indigenous to our vineyard, it is an intense wine of outstanding length, complexity and balance and will reward cellaring for many years
2024 Maxwell Reserve Cabernet
Colour: Dense, vibrant blackberry
Bouquet: Lifted wild berry and black currant with violets, dried herbs, forest floor and new, cedary French oak
Flavour: Wild berry and black currant, with violets, coffee bean, dark chocolate, a touch of soy with new, cedary French oak
Texture: Intense and complex with fine tannins, perfect balance and a long finish
Alcohol: 13.8%


















