Woody Nook 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon ($28) was blended and going to the bottled two days later. Dark purple with a vivid hue, the colour is glorious. The wine is dry grown and has a complex nose exuding dusty oak, cigar box, tobacco all of which are over intense sweet fruit scents. In the mouth the wine shows great fruit and perfect balance with a multiplicity of flavours including sour black cherry, raspberry, blackberry, milk chocolate and mint - a very savoury wine - impressive for the price. Muscular bodyweight, a firm consistency and tight structure which in time should become seamless together with a well-developed harmonious complexity makes this a wine to buy and cellar until at least 2008+. Rated as Highly Recommended with **** for value, the rating may improve as the wine matures. – Feb 03