Dark, juicy and tangy, with green berry and olive grace notes to the basic currant and raspberry flavors, echoing beautifully on the long, lively finish.
- WS, Harvey Steiman Issue: Aug 31 2003
One of the finest Cabernet Sauvignons produced in South Australia is d'Arenberg's Coppermine Road. The colossal 2001 The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits an opaque purple color in addition to a gorgeous perfume of lead pencil shavings intermixed with blackberry and cassis fruit, vanilla, Asian spices, and white flowers. Still primary and young, with great intensity as well as tremendous upside potential.
- WA, Robert Parker Jnr. Issue: #148
Quite fragrant, fully ripe cassis/blackcurrant aromas; full bodied, gutsy tannins.
- AWC, James Halliday Issue: Oct 2003
Full, lightly browning red. Earth, chocolate and cedar aromas beneath dusty, slightly leafy notes of small dark berries and dark olive. Ripe and juicy, with a dark, brooding palate of earthy plum and dark berries over a sinewy spine of firm, somewhat astringent tannins and cedary, chocolatey oak.
- IWC, Jeremy Oliver Issue: Jul/Aug 03