A fragrant and elegant medium-bodied cabernet with clear varietal expression of cassis / blackberry and red cherry fruits. A savoury line of flavour with dark fruits, spice, herbs, olives, bay leaf and cedary oak, finishing with a super fine silky tannin structure.
TOP GOLD MEDAL – Yarra Valley Wine Show
TROPHY – Best Cabernet Sauvignon
95 Points – Halliday Wine Companion
Made from 100% cabernet, planted in Seville in the Upper Yarra in 1999, hence the anniversary bottling. Bottled unfined and unfiltered after 14 months in a combination of new and older barriques. An impressive bright deep purple colour. Dense, with dark fruit, dark chocolate and a moreish, savoury, meaty edge. Concentrated on the palate, this well-made and priced medium-bodied wine finishes with classic chewy, gravelly tannins.
Andrew Graham – Australian Wine Review
This Payne’s Rise red screams Yarra Cab, with great colour (let’s call it a dark ruby), and the nose is true Yarra claret – dusty mint and blackberries. You’ve got to like a bit of mint and bay leaf, as it ripples through the mid-weight palate, with a bit of lift through the middle thanks to some cocoa powder oak. before typically young Cab rawish tannins.
Formative, and very much a wine for the future, I rather like the underlying structure and style here. It’s just a smidgen minty for smashing a bottle now, but the lines of tannins and fruit all match up to something great (and at a very reasonable alcohol level to boot). Like. Will be a gold medal wine with just a few years in the cellar.
Payne’s Rise Anniversary Cabernet Sauvignon 2019. Best drinking: can you wait? Even a year or two. But five years would be better. Then drink over twenty years. 18/20, 93/100+. 13.5%
Huon Hooke – The Real Review
93/100
Deep, concentrated colour and aromas of mulberry and cassis in amongst dried herb and briary characters. The palate is lean-ish and medium to full-bodied, with a touch of elegance, finished off by firm and slightly edgy tannins. A very good wine that just needs a bit more time. 09 APR 2022
2023–2034
