2016 Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon (Magnum)
Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner 2018
(the most prestigious and sought after wine award in Australia)
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Includes 5% malbec and 3% petit verdot, crushed and destemmed, a wine of many components, mainly small batch ferments (static and open fermenters), pumping over and plunging, part extended maceration (4 weeks), matured for 12 months in French oak (40% new). Focused and powerful, the deep but bright colour a come-on. Cassis is given context by cabernet tannins, which are firm, not dry.
95 Points Toni Paterson, The Real Review
This wine has a beautiful colour with great intensity and brightness. It is youthful, with a beautiful core of red and black berries. Great palate density supported by a line of fresh acidity and fine framing tannin. It is not quite ready to drink now though it will age gracefully and will be well worth the wait
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Italian mountain herbs begin to emerge from the saltbush and licorice that adorn the nose of the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon. Fresh plump fruit on the palate does nothing to obscure the powerful tannic drive that this wine is in possession of. As with many of the 2016s, this has eons to go. Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at the Melbourne Wine Show for this vintage.
Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner 2018
(the most prestigious and sought after wine award in Australia)
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Includes 5% malbec and 3% petit verdot, crushed and destemmed, a wine of many components, mainly small batch ferments (static and open fermenters), pumping over and plunging, part extended maceration (4 weeks), matured for 12 months in French oak (40% new). Focused and powerful, the deep but bright colour a come-on. Cassis is given context by cabernet tannins, which are firm, not dry.
95 Points Toni Paterson, The Real Review
This wine has a beautiful colour with great intensity and brightness. It is youthful, with a beautiful core of red and black berries. Great palate density supported by a line of fresh acidity and fine framing tannin. It is not quite ready to drink now though it will age gracefully and will be well worth the wait
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Italian mountain herbs begin to emerge from the saltbush and licorice that adorn the nose of the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon. Fresh plump fruit on the palate does nothing to obscure the powerful tannic drive that this wine is in possession of. As with many of the 2016s, this has eons to go. Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at the Melbourne Wine Show for this vintage.
Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner 2018
(the most prestigious and sought after wine award in Australia)
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Includes 5% malbec and 3% petit verdot, crushed and destemmed, a wine of many components, mainly small batch ferments (static and open fermenters), pumping over and plunging, part extended maceration (4 weeks), matured for 12 months in French oak (40% new). Focused and powerful, the deep but bright colour a come-on. Cassis is given context by cabernet tannins, which are firm, not dry.
95 Points Toni Paterson, The Real Review
This wine has a beautiful colour with great intensity and brightness. It is youthful, with a beautiful core of red and black berries. Great palate density supported by a line of fresh acidity and fine framing tannin. It is not quite ready to drink now though it will age gracefully and will be well worth the wait
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Italian mountain herbs begin to emerge from the saltbush and licorice that adorn the nose of the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon. Fresh plump fruit on the palate does nothing to obscure the powerful tannic drive that this wine is in possession of. As with many of the 2016s, this has eons to go. Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at the Melbourne Wine Show for this vintage.
