2019 Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Highly Rated
A complex Margaret River Cabernet from Xanadu with layers and layers of flavour. Elegance and grace are the watchwords here.

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Description

The Reserve wines from Xanadu represent the best of what they produce in any given vintage - the results are seamless blends that they consider greater than the sum of its parts.

The Reserve Cabernet is just that - a gorgeous and elegant wine that exudes class and quality, full of inky blue and black fruits and a fine-boned tannic tale.

You could approach it now if you desired, but it's got everything it needs to build even more depth and complexity over the next decade.

This elegant wine offers a vibrant bouquet of blackcurrant, mulberries and rose petal framed by fine French oak, interwoven with hints of cocoa and bay leaf in the background.Medium-full bodied, the palate offers a core of blue and black forest fruits, cassis, and dark choc-mint characters. The wine has a wonderful depth of flavour with intricate layers of inky fruits underpinned by fine grained, gravelly tannins. Quintessential Margaret River Cabernet; energetic, complex and refined culminating in a persistent berry fruit finish.

97 Points - "Deep red purple colour, the bouquet spotlessly clean and bell-clear varietal with cassis cabernet fruit shining out brightly. Cedary overtones too. The wine is massively intense on the palate, concentrated and powerful, with abundant tannins which are fine and supple, ripe and harmonious. Tremendous depth and power, poise and precision: a really stunning young cabernet that deserves cellaring and will richly repay the wait." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

97 Points - "92/4/4% cabernet sauvignon/malbec/petit verdot. Fruit from Wilyabrup, Treeton and the Steven's Rd vineyard. Matured for 14 months in French oak (45% new). Sometimes, you gotta start at the end of a wine, rather than the front. Usually it is because the wine is so long, that the first flavours are long forgotten. Such is life, here. The tannins, which are laced like a fine silky web through the finish, capture the pure fruit on the mid palate and coax it through the mouth. Caught also, like fine droplets of dew in a spider's web, are pockets of spice which add pop and thrill to the overall. Another scintillating and pure cabernet release from the team at Xanadu." - Erin Larkin (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 Points - "Black and blue fruit, baking spice, cocoa, some mint, rose and bay leaf perfume. It's medium-bodied, compact feel with firm stony tannin, some redcurrants, a fresh almost sappy quality to acidity, and grainy gravelly tannin to close. Certainly has a fair bit of energy, and a spicy nervy feel to it, but also comes with good depth of flavour, and a finish of solid length." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

92 Points - "Restrained nose of black olive, blueberry, violet and ripe blackcurrant. Juicy and sweetly fruited, round, smooth, controlled and polished." - Sarah Ahmed, Justin Knock MW, Julia Sewell (Decanter Panel Tasting)

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