This is a Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz blend, albeit with a Coonawarra twist. The 2016 The Malleea is very fresh for a seven-year-old wine, with very little development ready on the nose. It is overtly minty and layered with humidor/lotus leaf/cigar box/tobacco, with a chorus of cassis and blackberry in the background. This is a very good Cabernet—old school in the best kind of way. It has a sumptuous mid-palate and is concentrated, idiosyncratically Australian and unrelentingly Coonawarra.