Leeuwin Estate

2018 LEEUWIN ESTATE ART SERIES CABERNET SAUVIGNON, MARGARET RIVER

This has pomegranate, red licorice and peppered raspberry. The fruit flavours, while slinky and seductive, are not the major player here. And that is saying something. The key to the brilliance of this wine, like the ‘14, the ‘10 and to some extent the ‘05 before it, is the texture. The tannins. They are tightly woven, very fine and serve to support the fruit and the acid. This wine is built on a stable scaffold of tannin that both cushions the experience and defines it. What a wine. EL 13.5% alc.

$89 / 2042

Tell us something interesting about this wine? Cabernet sauvignon is so expressive in its nature, like a gliding pendulum between dark concentrated fruits of blackcurrants and cherries, gently swinging to an aromatic and floral profile. The foundation and pedigree of the Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is Block 8 – planted in 1975, dry grown, individually berry sorted and matured in 50 per cent new French Bordelaise barriques. Tactile, fine, mineral and elegant, the Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon embraces our environment and situation.

LEEUWIN ESTATE ★★★★★ MARGARET RIVER, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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