Xanadu Circa 77 Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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Boy, you’re getting a decent bang for your buck with this high-class, relatively inexpensive Cabernet from this great season in Margaret River. It’s a combination of largely Cabernet Sauvignon with smaller contributions from Petit Verdot, Malbec, and Cab Franc. In fact, it comes from 10 different vineyards that are all more than 20 years old. Nose shows a plummy blackcurrant character with some high-end perfumes. The palate is generous and concentrated, with loads of dark fruit. And the tannins that are providing the structure are seamless and quite fine, yet inevitably important. There’s an energy here, and yet it has the structure and poise that is what you want to see in Cabernet.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
