The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz The Signature reveals purple in its color along with a cooler climate mouthfeel, massive, concentrated blackberry and cassis fruit, and additional floral and cherry notes. Full-bodied and rich, with good freshness as well as huge concentration and length, it should drink well for 15-20 years. Drink 2005 - 2025 95 points Robert Parker Jnr, The Advocate
Beginning with the 1962 vintage, The Signature wines of Yalumba have saluted the very best of the vintage. They also have acknowledged the skills and dedicated service of people who have enhanced the traditions and culture of Yalumba. The Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz blend is a distinctively Australian style, and The Signature has set the benchmark for this iconic style, drawing heavily on Yalumba's great Barossa resource of Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz vineyards. Deep and intense, the wine displays full palate weight with powerful fruit and soft American oak which was hand-coopered at Yalumba - a wine made for longevity, very much The Signature style.
Yalumba have been blending Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz in ‘The Signature’ wines since 1962. The idea for ‘The Signature’ Series was born when, at the annual dinner of the Stock Exchange of Adelaide, the Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies stood with a glass of Yalumba red wine in his hand and said "Gentlemen, this is the finest Australian wine I have ever tasted." The wine became know as 'The Menzies' and was the inspiration for ‘The Signature’ series. Since that time, 37 individuals have become ‘signatories’ in recognition of their contribution to the culture and tradition of Yalumba.
An Australian Classic, dating back to 1962, but deriving from Sir Robert Menzies' declaration at a lunch in Adelaide that the '61 Special Vintage Galway Claret was 'the finest Australian wine I have ever tasted'. A blend of 65 per cent Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon and 35 per cent old-vine Barossa Shiraz; it spends 24 months in American oak prior to bottling but never seems to be overwhelmed by it. James Halliday
