The wines submitted for this edition of the Companion were variously sourced from McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley and Langhorne Creek, shiraz the focus. They were all from '16 and '17, ...

Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...