2015 Wendouree Cabernet Sauvignon
96 points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
It’s the Clare bush perfume of eucalyptus, aniseed and the like, along with fresh blackberry and blackcurrant, cedar and dusty earth. It often smells like a dry Australian forest after the rain has hit – petrichor – and equally evocative it is too. Medium bodied, firm and bony, kind of tense, but with a sweet redcurrant and blackcurrant small-berried intensity, the crunch of acidity and firm ropes of tannin, and a finish that’s intense and phenomenally long, tinged with bush perfume and the promise of forgiveness, given a couple of decades. It’s a very fine Cabernet. Unapologetically Australian, individual and magnificent.
Top Vintages of Cabernet:
1997 - 18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2001 -18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2002 -18.5/20 - Jancis Robinson
2006 - 93+ Points - The Wine Front
2009 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2010 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2012 - 98 Points-Wine Companion
2013 - 98 Points - Jeremy Oliver
2014 - 97 Points - Wine Companion
2015 - 96 Points - The Wine Front
2016 - 96+ Points - The Wine Front
2017 - 94 Points - Robert Parker
96 points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
It’s the Clare bush perfume of eucalyptus, aniseed and the like, along with fresh blackberry and blackcurrant, cedar and dusty earth. It often smells like a dry Australian forest after the rain has hit – petrichor – and equally evocative it is too. Medium bodied, firm and bony, kind of tense, but with a sweet redcurrant and blackcurrant small-berried intensity, the crunch of acidity and firm ropes of tannin, and a finish that’s intense and phenomenally long, tinged with bush perfume and the promise of forgiveness, given a couple of decades. It’s a very fine Cabernet. Unapologetically Australian, individual and magnificent.
Top Vintages of Cabernet:
1997 - 18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2001 -18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2002 -18.5/20 - Jancis Robinson
2006 - 93+ Points - The Wine Front
2009 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2010 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2012 - 98 Points-Wine Companion
2013 - 98 Points - Jeremy Oliver
2014 - 97 Points - Wine Companion
2015 - 96 Points - The Wine Front
2016 - 96+ Points - The Wine Front
2017 - 94 Points - Robert Parker
96 points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
It’s the Clare bush perfume of eucalyptus, aniseed and the like, along with fresh blackberry and blackcurrant, cedar and dusty earth. It often smells like a dry Australian forest after the rain has hit – petrichor – and equally evocative it is too. Medium bodied, firm and bony, kind of tense, but with a sweet redcurrant and blackcurrant small-berried intensity, the crunch of acidity and firm ropes of tannin, and a finish that’s intense and phenomenally long, tinged with bush perfume and the promise of forgiveness, given a couple of decades. It’s a very fine Cabernet. Unapologetically Australian, individual and magnificent.
Top Vintages of Cabernet:
1997 - 18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2001 -18/20 - Jancis Robinson
2002 -18.5/20 - Jancis Robinson
2006 - 93+ Points - The Wine Front
2009 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2010 - 96 Points - Wine Companion
2012 - 98 Points-Wine Companion
2013 - 98 Points - Jeremy Oliver
2014 - 97 Points - Wine Companion
2015 - 96 Points - The Wine Front
2016 - 96+ Points - The Wine Front
2017 - 94 Points - Robert Parker
DETAILS
PRODUCER - Wendouree
VINTAGE - 2015
VARIETAL - Cabernet Sauvignon
COUNTRY - Australia
REGION - Clare Valley, SA
BOTTLE SIZE - 750ml
