In an Article on WineGenius .com., Petaluma is listed amongst the  top 10 Cabernet Sauvignons in Australia. Coonawarra, The narrow strip of red ‘terra rossa’ soil over a limestone base produces Cabernet Sauvignon of distinction and refined structure, with the best wines combining elegance and power. Australia has had more success wiyth 100% Cabernet Sauvignons than it has with Bordeaux Blends, and this is a case of 3 of the top wines from the region.  Petaluma, which was made famous by Brian Croser. Katnook Estate have some great Wines, but Odyssey is their greatest, their Flagship wine (Available online for $125 a bottle and this weekend for less than €40 average per bottle as part of this case!) It is considered one of the rare great 'Langton Classification Outstanding wines'. Lastly, Balnaves have been producing Cabernet in Coonawarra since the 1970's and their 2010 which is included within this case is an exceptional wine, in an exceptional vintage. Enjoy or cellar these wines and make the most this weekend with a genuine €100 off the case.  2/4 x Petaluma Yellow Label Cabernet Sauvignon Country: Australia Region: Coonawarra Varietal:  Cabernet Sauvignon. Vintage: Mixed     Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: Petaluma - Winemaker Brian Croser Description:Petaluma, founded in 1976, crafts ultra-premium wines by carefully selecting the best sites within a particular region suited to a chosen variety. This is our 'distinguished vineyards' philosophy. This pioneering attitude towards responsive and instinctive viticulture and winemaking is as uncompromising and true today as it was more than 35 years ago. Wines bottled under the trademark 'Yellow Label' of Petaluma are testimony to the distinguished vineyard philosophy, heritage and pioneering spirit of Petaluma Estate. They showcase our primary goal of making wine crafted from the best fruit grown in the right vineyard sites for each variety. Tasting Note: Displaying black currant with a hint of plum. An elegant style with spice and cedar and wonderful soft sandy tannins. Mocha and a lovely hint of Cabernet mint and leaf herald the 2012 Coonawarra as a wine to enjoy with a few years in bottle, but one that will age gracefully for many years. Score: 92  Score of 92/100 is based on the following wine critic score: Critic Score The Wine Front 92 /100 An 81/15/4% blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and shiraz. The colour is youthful and vibrant, the bouquet is fragrant, the medium to full-bodied palate with first class structure to its beguiling mix of red and black fruits, cedary oak, and ine tannins all carrying through to the finish. Author: James Halliday Ageing Potential: 30 years ABV: 14.5% Food Matches: Fillet Steak, Hard mature cheese, Rib-Eye Steak, Roasts ________________________________________________________________ 2/4 x Balnaves Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Country: Australia Region: South Australia, Coonawarra Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage: 2010 Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: Balnaves, Pete Bissell Description:Planted in 1975, the vineyard is 48 hectares in size and has been in the family for three generations. The predominant variety planted is Cabernet Sauvignon at 70%. Winemaker Pete Bissell was the Qantas Winemaker of the Year 2005 and Balnaves was James Halliday’s Winery of the Year in 2008. Tasting Note:Deep rich red in colour, the nose is intense with aromas of cassis, blueberry, mint and seaweed, combined with fine mocha-coffee French oak. The palate is structured and lean with ripe cassis fruit and a fine tannin finish. Ageing Potential: 10+ years ABV: 14.5% Food Matches: Fillet Steak, Hard mature cheese, Rib-Eye Steak, Roasts ___________________________________________________________ 2/4 x Katnook Estate Odyssey Cabernet Sauvignon  *** James Halliday 95 Points*** *** International Wine Challenge Gold Medal*** Country: Australia Region: Coonawarra Varietal: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage: 2002       Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: Katnook Estate Description:Katnook Estate is one of the most esteemed domains in Australia's premier red wine district, Coonawarra.Its vineyards, planted in prime Terra Rossa soil, span 330 hectares in the heart of this comparatively small and remote region in the south east corner of South Australia.From here come red wines that have contributed to Coonawarra's international reputation and white wines with equally distinctive attributes.Wines produced include both the Riddoch range and that named after the place itself, the prestigious Katnook Estate range. Katnook Estate Tasting Note: "The best selected parcels of small flavour intense Cabernet fruit – from specific vineyard rows planted on rich clay loams over a thick hard layer of limestone – are used for Katnook Estate’s concentrated and powerful Odyssey Cabernet Sauvignon. This highly prized Coonawarra wine has emerged as a benchmark ‘essence of Coonawarra’ style with beautifully intense pure blackcurrant aromas, mocha oak complexity and plush chocolaty flavours. After vinification in ‘headed down’ fermenters maturation takes place over approximately 36 to 40 months in 100 % new French oak. Some parcels are “double oaked” to increase flavour complexity. Winemaker Wayne Stehbens describes the overall style as “fruit richness and elegance”. Odyssey has established proven cellaring potential and has a very keen secondary market following."Andrew Caillard MW Ageing Potential: 40 years ABV: 14% Food Matches: Fillet Steak, Hard mature cheese, Rib-Eye Steak, Roasts In his review of the Odyssey by Katnook the Wine Advocate’s Robert Parker asks, “Is this Australia’s answer to a top-class Pauillac? The luxury Odyssey (100% Cabernet Sauvignon) is Katnook Estate’s top cuvee. The wine spends 30 months in French oak, and comes across as a serious Bordeaux look-alike. The dark ruby/purple color is saturated to the rim. The nose offers up reticent but promising aromas of cigar box, cedar, fruit cake, black currant, and toasty notes. In the mouth, black cherry/black currant flavors are impressive and full-bodied, with nicely integrated acidity and tannin. You may not always agree with Parker’s assessments, but you can’t dispute the breadth and depth of his palate. If he compares an Australian Coonawarra cabernet sauvignon to a top Bordeaux you know it’s a very informed opinion, based on years of tasting wines from all over the world. Aromas of “cigar box, cedar, fruit cake, black currant, and toasty notes” are indeed descriptors frequently used in tasting notes for the best Pauillac wines – an appellation that is home to three of the five First Growths. Pauillac wines are also admired for their concentrated flavours and voluptuous texture, so to compare a Coonawarra cabernet sauvignon to a top Pauillac is very high praise indeed. Wine critic James Halliday jokes that Coonawarra on South Australia’s Limestone Coast and the Haut Medoc of Bordeaux prove the exception to the rule that almost all of the foremost wine regions of the world are landscapes of great beauty!  Coonawarra is a cigar-shaped strip of land only 12km long and 2km wide that is all but taken up by vineyards. The flat, bleak terrain is subject to cold, wet and windy winters and, like Bordeaux, enough vagaries in the weather to make vintage conditions unpredictable. But the appellation does have one very important attribute going for it – its friable, well-drained ancient terra rossa soil on a slightly elevated limestone ridge. Terra rossa refers to the fact that the limestoned-based soils have been turned red by the oxidation of iron impurities in the top soil. As Halliday notes, this soil has been “universally recognised as the greatest terroir for cabernet sauvignon in Australia.” Halliday quotes Peter Sichel, former president of the Grand Crus de Bordeaux, as saying: “Terroir determines the character of the wine, man its quality.” In the case of the Katnook Estate Odyssey Cabernet Sauvignon, the man responsible for its creation is winemaker Wayne Stehbens, who has made wines for Katnook for over 30 years and is possibly Australia’s longest serving winemaker. Stehbens works closely with Vineyard Manager Chris Brodie to insure the best possible outcomes in the vineyard. First released in 1996 from the 1991 vintage, the wine has won a string of international trophies including Best Australian Red and the Frescobaldi Trophy for Best Vintage Red Wine, awarded twice, at the 2003 UK International Wine & Spirit Competition for the 1998 Odyssey.