Xanadu

Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

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  Vintage 2018
  99 points

Glenn Goodall names 2018 “undoubtedly the best Margaret River Cabernet vintage I’ve seen in my 21 years at Xanadu”. No wine attests to this more emphatically than his Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Some wines command an epic tale to unravel their multifaceted layers. Others, by virtue of their sheer purity, beauty and grace, leave me lost for words, gaping in speechless, stunned, swooning silence.”

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  Vintage 2018
  99 points

This is probably the finest cabernet yet released from Xanadu. It’s a blend of mostly cabernet sauvignon with small amounts of malbec and petit verdot. It’s a powerhouse loaded with concentrated dark fruit and supported with typically chalky tannins and a decent hit of oak, of which 45% was new French. It’s dense and engaging, yet there is that life and energy that stamps these wines with another dimension. It has many years ahead of it.