2009 Leeuwin Estate Museum ‘Art Series’ Chardonnay
Leeuwin Estate have released 2-3 cases from their museum stock, these wines are treasures and are incredibly sought after…
“Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future.”
- Huon Hooke
97 points Jeremy Oliver
A very polished complete and balanced expression of this benchmark wine whose handsomely oaked fragrance of grapefruit melon and peach reveals smoky mineral complexity and spicy nuances of cinnamon and ginger It’s long deeply concentrated and unusually powerful with a deep seamless presence of fruit and spicy vanilla oak delivering smoothness and structure all down the palate towards a citrusy mineral finish of exceptional length and freshness
97 points James Halliday
Craftmanship of the highest order in the vineyard and winery have combined to create a perfect example with this wine. The intensity and power unwind effortlessly, but with multiple aroma and flavour messages from the barrel fermentation and subsequent maturation of the fully ripe, pink grapefruit and peach at its core.
97 points Huon Hooke
Medium to light yellow colour, backward for its age. Slightly biscuity, almost musty oak aromas. Took time to open up. The palate is lean and taut, unevolved and crisply acid. Seems to be still very much in its shell. Later: it began to blossom in the glass: powerful, penetrating, long and lingering. Some tropical fruit aromas as well as floral and grapefruit hints. Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future. This continues Leeuwin's change in style to a less oaky and much more restrained style than the blockbusters of yesteryear.
Leeuwin Estate have released 2-3 cases from their museum stock, these wines are treasures and are incredibly sought after…
“Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future.”
- Huon Hooke
97 points Jeremy Oliver
A very polished complete and balanced expression of this benchmark wine whose handsomely oaked fragrance of grapefruit melon and peach reveals smoky mineral complexity and spicy nuances of cinnamon and ginger It’s long deeply concentrated and unusually powerful with a deep seamless presence of fruit and spicy vanilla oak delivering smoothness and structure all down the palate towards a citrusy mineral finish of exceptional length and freshness
97 points James Halliday
Craftmanship of the highest order in the vineyard and winery have combined to create a perfect example with this wine. The intensity and power unwind effortlessly, but with multiple aroma and flavour messages from the barrel fermentation and subsequent maturation of the fully ripe, pink grapefruit and peach at its core.
97 points Huon Hooke
Medium to light yellow colour, backward for its age. Slightly biscuity, almost musty oak aromas. Took time to open up. The palate is lean and taut, unevolved and crisply acid. Seems to be still very much in its shell. Later: it began to blossom in the glass: powerful, penetrating, long and lingering. Some tropical fruit aromas as well as floral and grapefruit hints. Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future. This continues Leeuwin's change in style to a less oaky and much more restrained style than the blockbusters of yesteryear.
Leeuwin Estate have released 2-3 cases from their museum stock, these wines are treasures and are incredibly sought after…
“Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future.”
- Huon Hooke
97 points Jeremy Oliver
A very polished complete and balanced expression of this benchmark wine whose handsomely oaked fragrance of grapefruit melon and peach reveals smoky mineral complexity and spicy nuances of cinnamon and ginger It’s long deeply concentrated and unusually powerful with a deep seamless presence of fruit and spicy vanilla oak delivering smoothness and structure all down the palate towards a citrusy mineral finish of exceptional length and freshness
97 points James Halliday
Craftmanship of the highest order in the vineyard and winery have combined to create a perfect example with this wine. The intensity and power unwind effortlessly, but with multiple aroma and flavour messages from the barrel fermentation and subsequent maturation of the fully ripe, pink grapefruit and peach at its core.
97 points Huon Hooke
Medium to light yellow colour, backward for its age. Slightly biscuity, almost musty oak aromas. Took time to open up. The palate is lean and taut, unevolved and crisply acid. Seems to be still very much in its shell. Later: it began to blossom in the glass: powerful, penetrating, long and lingering. Some tropical fruit aromas as well as floral and grapefruit hints. Delicious flavours, a magnificent wine with a big future. This continues Leeuwin's change in style to a less oaky and much more restrained style than the blockbusters of yesteryear.
DETAILS
VINTAGE - 2009
VARIETAL - Chardonnay
COUNTRY - Australia
REGION - Margaret River, WA
BOTTLE SIZE - 750ml
