The wine leads with black cherry and star anise, raspberry, mulberry and black peppercorns. There are notes of warm baking spices, cinnamon cassia and fresh grated nutmeg as well. Here, the Cabernet is from Shangri-La, and the Marselan is from the Ningxia region. In the mouth, the wine is concentrated and a little syrupy, yet it achieves a sense of place and tastes very much like a Chinese wine, despite the influence of Australian winemaking philosophy. RP