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Robert Oatley The Pennant Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Margaret River

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A number of specific vineyard rows within Margaret River premier cabernet locale, Wilyabrup, were selected for their soil consistency, low fruit load and open sunlight exposure. Hand selected by individual bunch, the grapes run down an individual berry sorting table, into small vessels to ferment on skins for up to 8 weeks. Twelve months in tight grained low toast French oak, prior to rigorous barrel selection to compile this final blend.

Critic awards

The comparison with the Frankland version of this wine is immediately evident. This is a more opulent and densely concentrated cabernet with all of the blackcurrant, bay leaf and graphite characters that are part of Margaret River DNA. Seamlessly structured powerful palate sustains a super long finish. Plenty of hands-on picking to get the best fruit for an excellent wine.
Ray Jordan

— 97 points, Ray Jordan

Any day one gets to drink a flagship Margaret River Cabernet is a good day. This one hails from the renowned Wilyabrup sub-region. The grapes are put across a special individual berry sorting table, going from there to small vessels for fermentation on skins for up to six weeks. Fifteen months maturation follows, in ‘tight-grained, low toast, new and one-year-old French oak’. The final blend is a barrel selection. Dark maroon in colour, this is still youthful. The nose is an appealing mix of intensity and elegance, with some early complexity already evident. Roast meats, dry herbs, tobacco leaves, black fruits. There is even an alluring hint of blueberries if one looks closely. Silky, supple, very fine if ever-so-slightly grainy tannins. A wine of grace and power that is finely balanced, very long and with a fine line of saline acidity driving the wine. A stunning Cabernet which will easily give pleasure for a decade and more (during which time, the score could easily rise further).
Ken Gargett

— 96 points, Wine Pilot

There can't be too many more 2018s to be released on to the market – this must be among the very last. It is savoury, dense and ripe; the concentrated flow of flavour shows the flux between sweet and savoury fruit, all of it framed within spicy oak. This is a big wine, muscly and tense. Give it some further time to stretch out – it needs it. Will go the distance, though.
Erin Larkin

— 95 points, Halliday Wine Companion

Region and Grapes

Region: McLaren Vale
Grape: Shiraz
ABV: 14.5%

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