Maxwell The Orchard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Beautifully fruited and varietally expressed, the wine shows blackcurrant, cherry, dried herb, clove, and toasted almond characters on the nose. It’s succulent and supple in the mouth, delivering good weight and silky flow, well structured by chalky tannins, finishing robust and lingering. At its best: now to 2033. Score – 92. (Sam Kim, wineorbit.co.nz, July 2025)