2016 Leeuwin Estate, Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River,Australia

2016 Leeuwin Estate, Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River,Australia

Product: 20161003608
 
2016 Leeuwin Estate, Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River,Australia

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Description

Saturated ruby. Smoke- and spice-accented red and blue fruits, rose pastille, vanilla and cured tobacco on the highly expressive nose. Palate-staining flavours of ripe cherry, black currant and fruitcake are supported and sharpened by an undercurrent of smoky minerality. 

It puts on weight with air and finishes appealingly sweet and extremely long, displaying resonating cherry, floral notes, and supple, slow-building tannins.

Drink 2025 - 2035

Josh Raynolds, Vinous.com (June 2021)

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Josh Raynolds, Vinous95/100

Saturated ruby. Smoke- and spice-accented red and blue fruits, rose pastille, vanilla and cured tobacco on the highly expressive nose. Palate-staining flavours of ripe cherry, black currant and fruitcake are supported and sharpened by an undercurrent of smoky minerality. 

It puts on weight with air and finishes appealingly sweet and extremely long, displaying resonating cherry, floral notes, and supple, slow-building tannins.

Drink 2025 - 2035

Josh Raynolds, Vinous.com (June 2021)

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James Suckling94/100

Impressively curated cabernet with cedar and tobacco aromas framing bright red berries, as well as bergamot, black tea, red plums and violets. The palate has a smooth, succulent, and elegantly juicy shape and such fine, taut, layered tannins that carry so long and pure. Superb cab with power and elegance. Screw cap.

Drink from 2024 onward

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (April 2020)

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Decanter94/100

A warmer-than-average late summer and ideal conditions during March and April produced excellent intensity of blackcurrant on the nose, with lifted cedar and cocoa. Sweet blueberry and crunchier red cherry chime in on the medium-bodied palate with creamy praline, cedar and cumin oak notes. Ripe but present taffeta tannins elegantly frame the fruit with a lingering, spicy finish.

Drink 2021 - 2031

Sarah Ahmed, Decanter.com (February 2021)

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About this WINE

Leeuwin Estate

Leeuwin Estate

Leeuwin Estate was purchased by Perth businessman Denis Horgan in the Margaret River region with a view to utilising it for cattle grazing. That was in 1969, but 3 years later Robert Mondavi visited the farm and immediately spotted the potential for wine production.

The farm quickly assumed the mantle of Australia's finest Chardonnay producer and its Cabernet Sauvignon became one of Western Australia's most sought-after reds. Some of the lowest yields in Australia and a near-perfect microclimate lie at the root of this estate`s success.

Oz Clarke has described the Chardonnay as Australia's "Montrachet", and few would beg to differ.

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Margaret River

Margaret River

Located on the most south-westerly point of Australia, three hours’ drive south of Perth, the Margaret River region sprang to life during the 1960s and 1970s as a result of Professor Harold Olmo’s and Dr John Gladstone’s research into the region’s viticultural potential. Consequently Vasse Felix was planted in 1967, Moss Wood in 1970 and Cullen in 1971. Since then the plantings have grown exponentially, while the number of wineries has increased six-fold. This explosion of wineries has perhaps been to the detriment of the wine quality.

Bounded to the west by the Indian Ocean and the 90km Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin promontory, the region enjoys a benign if damp maritime climate in which the vines rarely shut down, causing disrupted flowering (exacerbated by strong, westerly sea winds). Over the growing season it’s 16 percent hotter than in Coonawarra and 7% than the Médoc.

The Cape ridge is made up of lateritic clay topsoils over weathered granite and gneiss, giving fruit with a relatively high pH. Cabernet Sauvignon is the most fancied variety,producing a lush, early drinking style, followed by Shiraz, Chardonnay and Sémillon.

Recommended Producers: Cullen, McHenry Hohnen Vintners, Moss Wood, Cape Mentelle and Voyager Estate.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.

It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.

The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.

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