Winemaker Notes
This wine has a wild, ethereal presence of briary, hedgerow fruits, fragrant sweet spice and doughy oak notes that provide warmth and dimension. More refined than robust, the palate’s soft, plush red fruits give richness and the fine line of tannins, length and structure.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A perfumed nose of dark plums, dark cherries, mocha, fresh tobacco, herbs and cigar box. Full body with plush tannins and bright acidity. Vibrant, balanced and slightly chewy with a long finish. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Scotsdale Cabernet Sauvignon is savory and spiced, with pencil shavings, whiffs of carpentry workshop, cassis, bramble, five spice and aniseed. This is more tertiary spice and pepper than it is is abundant red/black fruits, and from such an ample year, one may rightly expect more fruit concentration. However, this may take a couple more years to evolve into a middle-aged wine, which is where one expects this will shine.
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.
Occupying the tip of Western Australia’s spectacular southern coastline is a wine region of impressive natural diversity called the Great Southern. Here cool climate loving varieties like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc grow in vineyards hugging its jagged coastlines.
Farther inland, among Great Southern's rolling hills and flatlands, a more pronounced temperature shift between day and night is perfect for the the production of exciting Riesling wines as well as impressive Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.