Catching Thieves make wines with so much style, you'll do just about anything to get your hands on them! The highly skilled McWilliams team have matched the nobility of Cabernet Sauvignon with the affability of Merlot, to achieve a succulent Margaret River wine of substantial style and flair. Catching Thieves is built to exude alluring dark berry plum characters, to be in fine balance and ultimately deliver a soft and flavourful, aromatic juicyness to the palate.

$1999each $239DOZEN EACH DOZEN Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are picked throughout the cool of night to retain freshness. Grapes are gently destemmed, cold soaked and vinified in static fermenters at 22C to 26C over the course of a week, pumped over thrice daily. Upon completion, batches are held on skins for several days to soften the tannins, batches are pressed and transferred to a combination of finely coopered oak barrels for a term of age to enhance the complexity, while being treated to a series of rackings over the course of a year. Catching Thieves is ultimately assembled with a view to creating a seamless Cabernet Merlot wine whilst retaining the ebullient Margaret River bramble berry opulence.

Brick crimson red colour. Leafy aromatics, redcurrants and wild black berry, spice over supple chocolate oak. A medium weight palate featuring delectable flavours of currant and mulberry, plums and lovely cassis notes, juicy acidity, persistence and length. A touch of cinnamon complements the fruit, as it rests upon a soft but supportive tannin structure.

Catching Thieves specialize in the vogue contemporary styles which have seen Margaret River wines prevail the world over. The philosophy behind Catching Thieves is to capture and deliver contemporary, vibrant wines with so much style, you'll do anything to get your hands on them! The salubrious soils and balmy climes along Margaret River yield harvests of Sauvignon and Semillon grapes endowed with great intensity. Cool maritime breezes stimulate the vines to concentrate the brisk fruit flavours which, so essential for the Catching Thieves style.

$1999each $239DOZEN EACH DOZEN Catching Thieves pay homage to the daring, enterprising and creative personalities who are the central characters in stories such as To Catch a Thief, Modesty Blaise and Catch Me if You Can. Paradoxically, the Catching Thieves wines are honest, reliable and desirable. Grapes are harvested and crushed directly to the press, where only free run juice are retained for cold settling. Juices are racked clean and warmed prior to seeding with a strain of yeast which encourages varietal expression. Cold fermentations accentuate and retain primary fruit flavours. Components are separately treated and assembled upon completion to create a wine of elegance and structure.

Pale straw with light green hues. Intense citrus and snow pea aromas complemented with fresh passionfruit and exotic tropical fruit notes. A crisp, clean palate with dominant passionfruit and stonefruit flavours, beautifully supported by a citrus acid backbone giving the wine lovely structure and a lingering, zesty finish. A super selection for the lunch table, highly suited to bistrot faire, chicken caesar or pinenut, dill and cream linguine.