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Description
Hauntingly great Margaret River Cabernet, potentially the best release yet, from regional legends Leeuwin Estate.
A slow-builder of a wine, with flavours of cassis and light herbs on the nose - the aromatics need a bit of to time to wake up though. The gorgeous, slow, velvety palate builds up to a finish of quietly intense blackcurrant, olive and kitchen spices. Gravelly, cedary tannins are already meltingly integrated. It's already full of pleasure.
A full-bodied wine that doesn't feel full-bodied, featuring more of a Cabernet caress than a kapow...
96 points
"One of the distinctive features of this wine, and in a way a DNA link to all Art Series cabernet, is its savouriness. It’s the rolled tobacco, nori, iodine and whiff of new leather plus the cedary oak, but these are not separate, they form a whole impression. There’s also the core of excellent fruit, the structure, the supple tannins and the bright acidity. And the joy of drinking it."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)96 points
“Immediately captivating: the nose is vibrant and energetic, while simultaneously the epitome of elegance and poise with restrained fruit power. This is a silk evening gown of a wine: form-fitting, precisely tailored, mellifluous and effortlessly chic... Displaying extremely fine-grained tannins, it's firm, focused and delicate, with a graphite line, fresh acidity and plenty that will reveal itself in good time. Tasted pre-release.”
- Cassandra Charlick (Decanter)95 points
"On the palate, the wine is perfumed and fine, lightweight and flowing. It's a beautiful wine to drink now, thanks to its powdery tannins. It's all about the tannins here; it's whippy, like fresh new growth on a plant. I would drink this anytime from release; it offers tremendous pleasure just as it is.”
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
