In Bond Fine Wine. 2018 Leeuwin Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River, Australia. Red australia - red in 12x75cl. Drinking window: 2022–2053. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Founded in 1973 by the Horgan family in the heart of Margaret River, Leeuwin Estate has become one of Australia’s most celebrated wineries, earning a global reputation for its benchmark Art Series Chardonnay. Combining pristine maritime vineyards with meticulous winemaking, Leeuwin produces Chardonnays of remarkable finesse, intensity and longevity -often compared with top white Burgundy for their balance of richness, precision and mineral drive. Alongside the iconic Chardonnay, the estate’s Cabernet Sauvignon represents some of the finest value in Margaret River: polished, classically structured and beautifully perfumed, showing the region’s hallmark elegance and freshness rather than sheer power.
Erin Larkin (EL) — 97/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 2023-07-06 · Drink 2023 - 2053
The 2018 vintage in Margaret River was perhaps the best vintage in the modern commercial history of the region (i.e., since 1967). Most producers made their best wines in this year, and despite a string of extremely high-quality vintages that followed (2019 - cool, aromatic; 2020 - moderate to warm, great power and tannin structure; 2022 - too early to tell but whispers abound that it rivals 2018…
Decanter (DEC) — 95/100 · Decanter.com, 2022-05-08 · Drink 2022 - 2036
Elegant, medium-bodied, with cardamom and dried herb hints to the bitter chocolate-edged blackcurrant fruit, with suggestions of riper cassis. Lovely freshness, showing ripe but present fine-grained tannins in this outstanding Margaret River Cabernet vintage. Classy and controlled. Bordelaise-coopered French oak barriques discreetly buff and extend the fruit on a tapered finish, with cigar box an…
Jancis Robinson MW (JR) — 17.5/20 · JancisRobinson.com, 2022-04-23 · Drink 2022 - 2030
Truly elegant in every way. One sip of this wine and I can feel its beauty. It has a pure-fruited translucency and the whisper of pine needles, a mint-cold freshness, tannins reaching long, tenacious, slender from top to bottom, embedded through the fruit. A wine with a sweet heart, taut purpose, exquisitely formed clarity. (TC)