× Home About Us Help Contact Receive Exclusive Deals Label Design mobile menu cart

My Cart (0)

Existing Customers

Forgot your password

New Customer

Click To Create An Account

Your Cart

Your order is empty!

Case {{key + 1}} -

Gift Card -

Ready To Checkout Incomplete

FREE! {{ scase.price | currency}}

${{product.product.subtotal}}

{{ scase.products[0].product.details.product }} for {{scase.products[0].product.options.recipient_name}}

Click on any bottle to modify quantities Remove Case

Minimum Case Size Is 12 Bottles

Subtotal

Shipping

TBA FREE SHIPPING {{order.totals.shipping_cost | currency}}

Discount

-{{ order.totals.discount | currency }}

Gift Card Discount Code ({{ coupon.coupon_name }})

-{{ coupon.discount_value | currency }}

Total

AUD {{order.totals.total_cost | currency}}

Including {{order.totals.tax | currency}} GST

Review Shopping Cart Saving...

My Cart

Customer Login

New Customer

Create An Account

Your order is empty!

Case {{key + 1}} -

Gift Card -

Ready To Checkout Incomplete

FREE! {{ scase.price | currency}}

${{product.product.subtotal}}

{{ scase.products[0].product.details.product }} for {{scase.products[0].product.options.recipient_name}}

Click on any bottle to modify quantities Remove Case

Minimum Case Size Is 12 Bottles

Subtotal

Shipping

TBA FREE SHIPPING {{order.totals.shipping_cost | currency}}

Discount

-{{ order.totals.discount | currency }}

Gift Card Discount Code ({{ coupon.coupon_name }})

-{{ coupon.discount_value | currency }}

Total

AUD {{order.totals.total_cost | currency}}

Including {{order.totals.tax | currency}} GST

Review Shopping Cart Saving...

Xanadu Reserve Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

97 POINT RATED CAMPBELL MATTINSON HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION & 96 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE THE REAL REVIEW

^$ 109.99 /bottle by the straight dozen

Single bottle price ^$109^.99

Customer reviews

0 out of 5 stars.

Why to buy:

97 POINT RATED CAMPBELL MATTINSON JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
96 POINT RATED THE REAL REVIEW HUON HOOKE
96 POINT RATED GARY WALSH THE WINE FRONT
96 POINT RATED NICK STOCK JAMESSUCKLING.COM
9 TIME GOLD MEDAL WINNER

Specifications:

Vintage:	2017
Source/Region:	Margaret River, Western Australia
Grape Variety:	Cabernet Sauvignon
Cellaring:	Drink now or cellar for the next 5 years
Bottle Top:	Stelvin
Alcohol Content:	14.50
Standard Drinks:	8.60
Rating:	97

Tasting Notes:

Deep red with purple hues. The wine offers vibrant aromas of blackcurrant, mulberries and rose petal frames by fine French oak, interwoven with hints of dark choc-mint and dried herb in the background. Powerful yet elegant, the generous palate offers a core of ripe forest fruits, cassis and dark chocolate characters. The wine has wonderful density, layered with inky fruits and underpinned by silky fine-grained tannins. Complex and quintessentially Margaret River with a long Cabernet finish.

Technical:

The Reserve range continues to be the best of what we are able to produce in a given vintage – single vineyard or otherwise. 2017 is the first Reserve Cabernet that we have released since the 2014 and marks the return of our Langtons classified wine. Fruit was predominantly sourced from two mature vineyards; Victory Point, in the Treeton subregion; and Rosa Park in the Wallcliffe subregion of Margaret River, and was supplemented with a small amount of Malbec from our Stevens Road vineyard in Wallcliffe. The resulting blend from these vineyards has married beautifully, proving again that sometimes ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’

The growing season began with late budburst after a relatively cold, wet Winter. The mild Spring which followed ensured that there was good flowering and fruit set, in fact some yields needed to be addressed with crop thinning. Fine, mild conditions prevailed during Summer, which ended up being one of the coolest growing seasons in recent years. Harvest commenced late, at the end of February, with abundant Marri blossom keeping bird pressure very low whilst the whites were harvested. March was relatively wet with a significant rain event after most of the white fruit had been picked. Fortunately, the April that followed was glorious (the driest April since 1982 in fact) with fine weather and no heat extremes experienced at all. The extended ripening period allowing the reds to attain full physiological maturity and tannin ripeness with a wonderful sense of finesse.

Accolades & Awards:

97 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson James Halliday Wine Companion

"With 95% cabernet sauvignon, 5% malbec. It’s a best barrels selection with the final blend seeing 45% new French oak. This takes quality by the scruff of the neck. It’s seriously good cabernet: firm, flavoursome, tidy, balanced and long. It has excellent concentration, a thick mesh of tannin and enough nuance for you to know that more is to come. You could build a cellar around a wine like this."

96 Point Rated The Real Review - Huon Hooke

"Vivid deep-purple colour. Exuberant, hi-fi cabernet aromas of cassis, blueberry, violets and other berries, fruit doing all the talking - and loudly. The palate is exceedingly elegant, refined and poised. Very intense, with fine but persuasive tannins, and refreshing acidity. This is a surprisingly medium to full-bodied wine for a Reserve cabernet, not a blockbuster but very intense, a smart wine indeed. It's a baby and desperately needs more time."

96 Point Rated - Gary Walsh The Wine Front

"Turns up the tannin and intensity, blue and black fruit, cocoa, baking spices and bay leaf. Thick and gravelly, bright and buoyant blueberry and boysenberry, clean lines of acidity, and a long spiced and perfumed finish, lots of chocolate, tobacco, dried flowers and ripe tannin. It’s an excellent wine, but it’s the quality and density of tannin that pushes me towards such a high score. Just."

96 Point Rated - Nick Stock JamesSuckling.com

"This makes a striking impression of classically cedary oak, cloves, nutmeg, toasted wood, cocoa, red cherries, blueberries, mint and leafy nuances and more. So complex. The palate has a succulent and very vibrant delivery of fruit flesh and finely detailed tannin with a long, fresh, concentrated and elegantly fine run to the finish."

94 Point Rated - Joe Czerwinski -Wine Advocate

"Scents of pencil shavings, licorice and violets accent cassis on the nose of the 2017 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Xanadu's most complete Cabernet, it's full-bodied, richly textured and generous but structured and long, with attractive hints of cocoa on the lingering finish. Super stuff."

94 Point Rated - Decanter World Wine Awards

"Rich and enticing aromas of dark rose, mulberry and cedar, then a palate plush with dark berry fruit and fragrant, seductive tannins."

Gold Medal Winner

Wine Show Of Western Australia 2020

Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2020

Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2019

Margaret River Wine Show 2019

Royal Queensland Wine Show 2019

Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2019

Sydney Royal Wine Show 2019

Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2018

Wine Show Of Western Australia 2018