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Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon(1996)
- Winery:
- Leeuwin Estate
- Varietal:
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Region:
- Australia > Western Australia > South West Australia > Margaret River
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- red grape, fruit, mediterranean fruits, currant, resinous, other berries, rich, cabernet sauvignon, voluminous, fine
- Jancis Robinson
- 16/20
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May 2008
- This was not one of my favourites. The deep colour is impressive. There's some mintiness and a richness bordering on overripeness, as though the fruit came in at wildly varying degrees of ripeness. The tannins are a bit grainy and jagged too.
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June 2007
- The colour is bright deep garnet with a little youthful purple around the edges. The bouquet is composed of fragrant aromas of sweet currant fruit carried and lifted by a cedary oak underpinning but not over shadowing it. Again currants are predominant on the palate with warm flavours of fine to medium texture. It fans out to a rich and quite voluminously fruity finish backed by gentle tannins. The 1996 Art Series Cabernet reflects a cool dry year, quite delicate in comparison to the 1995 but still multi complexed by the presence of 8% Malbec, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Merlot. Ready for drinking or cellar up to 5 years.
