Leeuwin, Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage:2014

Leeuwin, Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage:2014The 2017 vintage has been responsible for a wide variation in quality in Cabernet Sauvignons across the region. Here, the 2017 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is more minty and structural than the glossy 2016 that preceded it. It it savory and leafy and fine. I recall this being one of the best Cabernets produced in this vintage. It is holding well, and it has plenty of time ahead of it; however, I would drink it before many of the other vintages that

This is the first year in which most of the Baroli were aged partly in cask and partly in barrel

L’Arrosée’s 2005 displays elegance and finesse

which are contiguous vineyards located below the village and above the Route Nationale)

with menthol

plush tannins and tons of concentrated

The supporting tannins are really quite fine and the mouth feel is definitely on the refined side because of it

dark raspberry

A nice wine

pure and elegant nose features notes of red and blue pinot fruit

(planted in 1985)

but there are some gorgeous peach and citrus notes that flourish on the finish

smoked meats and tilled soil with wafts of garrigue