L.A.S. Vino Cabernet Sauvignon
L.A.S. Vino Cabernet Sauvignon

2023 L.A.S. Vino Cabernet Sauvignon

95 pts
L.A.S. Vino |Margaret River |Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet from a certified biodynamic site at the northern tip of Margaret River, made with zero fluff and maximum care.
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Description

Nic Peterkin held off making a Cab for years until he found the right site – a certified biodynamic vineyard up in Yallingup, where the vines aren’t trellised or irrigated and animals roam between the rows. It’s a pretty wild setup, but ideal for low-intervention winemaking. The fruit was hand-picked and carefully sorted, then fermented in large barrels as whole berries and left on skins for close to a month.

The wine spent just over a year in mostly used oak, with no fining and only a light filtration before bottling. It’s all Cabernet – no Merlot, no blending – just depth, structure and detail, with a freshness that keeps it lifted and easy to drink now, even though it’ll age well too.

Nic doesn’t make much of this wine, and it’s the only Cabernet in the range – so if you’re curious, don’t sit on it.

Jane Faulkner

Jane Faulkner

Halliday Wine Companion 95 Points

A bit of a sleeper as it’s reticent on the palate, until a decent decant does its job. The aromas are seductive – mulberries, redcurrants, the whiff of a lead pencil (if you can remember that), with cedary and spicy oak. Mid-weighted, with textural, cocoa-powder tannins and fine acidity. It’s elegant, detailed, refined and highly appealing.

Customer Reviews

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    2021 L.A.S. Vino Cabernet Sauvignon
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Impressive!

    A very different Cabernet Sauvignon!

    It's a cabernet sauvignon with most hard structures removed, left with a fruity, middle-bodied, and solid texture. It was a pleasure enjoying the wine, best to go with food, in particular red meat.

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    2021 L.A.S. Vino Cabernet Sauvignon
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Serious Cab Sauv

    A big, deep and long Cabernet. Ideal to enjoy with a well cured O'Connor t-bone. Delicious fruit and spice combined in a nicely structured red. WA at its best.

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The Vineyard

A certified organic and biodynamic site at the northern end of the cape. For the previous few years the vineyard had been completely unkept and unpruned with no trellising. The vines sprawl everywhere where pigs, geese, guineafowl and cows roam free.

The site faces north with a little creek running through the middle of the vineyard. Native flowers and plants grow under the rows with no herbicides or pesticides sprayed. It is one of only four certified biodynamic vineyards in the region and was one of the first to receive Demeter certification.


Winemaking

The fruit was hand-picked and cooled, followed by bunch and berry sorting by hand. This led to to an almost black cavier apparence of fruit in the fermenters. The fruit was naturally fermented as whole berries in large format barriques for 20-30 days. Plunged by hand and left to ferment at ambient cellar temperature with skins and seeds for 20-30 days prior to pressings directly back to the same barrels the wine fermented in.

The wine matured for 13 months in barrique and 3 months in tank prior to bottling. No fining and a light filtration (vegan friendly).


The Wine

A smooth, rich full bodied wine with dark rich fruit flavours of blackberry, blueberry strawberry and raspberry. Layers and layers of silky tannin through the extended maceration. A wine that can be put down for at least 10 years and comes into its own by decantering. A cabernet without comparison in Margaret River.

Made with certified organic and biodynamic grapes.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Feature Biodynamic
Organic
Vegan
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure DIAM Cork

L.A.S. Vino

Nic Peterkin’s blood runs red with Margaret River wine.

The son of Pierro founder, Dr Mike Peterkin and Shelly Cullen, of you guessed it, Cullen wines fame, the force is strong with this one. His wines are out there, challenging the status quo of one of the country’s most respected wine-producing regions. This is the “New Guard” of Margaret River, and the wines are coming out all guns blazing.

Nic is playing with some varieties off the beaten path of classic Margaret River. The Chardonnays and Chenin Blancs are stellar, as is the Cabernet but the likes of Touriga Nacional and Sousao all find a home amongst his eye-catching range.

There's some serious substance to his project, being named as the 2016 Gourmet Traveller Young Winemaker of the Year for his eclectic and tantalising releases and recently named the Dark Horse of the Year at the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Awards. Nic is one of the most creative and boundary-pushing winemakers in the country, without question. His Margaret River range is truly unlike anything else you will find in Australia.

Winemaker Nic Peterkin horsing around L.A.S. Vino

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