Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A stylish and polished top-tier cabernet that has convincingly concentrated fruit, neatly curated oak and well-groomed tannins. Rich dark berry fruit aromas abound here; there's cassis and dark cherry, blueberry too, plus plenty of cedary oak nicely judged against intense fruit. The palate has silky fine tannin appeal. There's a smooth ball of fleshy dark cherry and cassis-flavored cabernet fruit, concentrated and balanced. Best from 2020 and for a decade or more longer.
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Wine Enthusiast
A blend of Mount Barker and Margaret River fruit, this is lavishly oaked, chocolaty and rich, as decadent a bottle of Cabernet you’ll find in Australia. Baking spices accent mocha and cassis in this full-bodied wine, which features a velvety texture and long finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep garnet colored, the 2012 Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon is still a little youthfully mute with notes of mulberries and baked blueberries plus nuances of Provence herbs, cigar boxes and sandalwood. Medium-bodied, the palate is tight and structured with firm, chewy tannins and a good backbone of racy acid supporting the muscular fruit, finishing with wood and spice hints. Rating:91(+) Points
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Quite remote and unequalled in beauty, the wine regions of Westerm Australia promise endless physical and climatic diversity. From the coolest, seaside vineyards to the hottest inland zones, Western Australia is the source of some of the country’s most sought after wines.