2018 Xanadu Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon

#1 - Winner of the 2020 James Halliday Australian Cabernet Challenge. 
(This award was given after the wine scored 97 points and beat out 364 other entries from 29 different Australian wine regions.)

 Trophy & Gold Medal – Perth Royal Wine Show
Gold Medal – Margaret River Wine Show 2020

 95 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
A lovely dark, deep purple in colour. Brambly blackberries, pencil shavings, cedary, dried herbs, bay leaf, classic cabernet aromas, really complex, aromatic and evocative. Flavours are medium to full-bodied, there's a lovely balance between the black fruits, dried herbs, dark olive and the complexing, ripe herbaceousness of the variety and the granular, textured tannins that shape the wine. Lovely length and grip—a serious ‘luncheon claret’.

 95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon has an intensity in the mouth that comes from concentrated, ripe, balanced fruit, not from an effort to extract tannin via oak or maceration. This is framed by prominent tannin, but it does so in a very natural, easy way. It is supple, pliable, chewy (good) and flexible in the mouth, resplendent with raspberry, pomegranate, cassis and hints of saltbush and juniper.