Fallen Giants Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Plum, cherry, a dusting of paprika and pepper, a dash of vanilla, cedar and tobacco. It’s medium-bodied, even flow of cherry and blackcurrant flavour, a little mint and leafiness, a light grainy chew and a sort of ground pepper feel to tannin, with balanced acidity and cool-ish finish of good length. Very nice. No mistaking it for Victorian Cabernet, and a charming wine all up. Good now, though likely better with a few more years on it. A toss up between 93+ or 94 kind of thing. Points: 94/100

The Wine Front ∙ 8th Sep 2023

Grampians cabernet is hardly flavour of the month, but Fallen Giants is doing its best to change that. This is another excellent release. There's as much pepper as leaf, as much plum as blackcurrant, but there's a sinewy aspect to the tannin that is very cabernet and, as this variety often does, it uses mint/eucalypt characters to very good effect; adding lift and life to the darkness beneath. Add a briar note to the aftertaste and you're in excellent territory. Points: 95/100

Halliday Wine Companion ∙ 11th May 2023