Xanadu - The Gold Medal & Trophy Winning Factory
Xanadu – with only about 0.00036% of Australia’s wine production
dominates the Australian Capital City Wine Show Circuit.
Xanadu has won the 9 most recent Best Cabernet Sauvignon Trophies at Canberra,
our most prestigious and National Wine Show, and 10 of the past 11!
Against the entire country …
On top of that Glenn Goodall, the chief winemaker & his team have have tallied up an unbelievable
339 gold medals and 127 trophies across regional and national wine shows.
Quite extra-ordinary…
National Wine Show
(Australia’s most prestigious wine show)
Best Cabernet Trophy
2023 - Xanadu 2019
2022 - No Show Held - The Pandemic Year
2021 Xanadu Reserve 2019
2020 - No Show Held - The Pandemic Year
2019 - Xanadu 2017
2018 - Xanadu 2016 Stevens Road
2017 - Xanadu 2014 DJL
2016 - Xanadu 2014 DJL
2015 - Xanadu 2013
2014 - Xanadu 2011 DJL
2013 - Xanadu 2010
2012 - Watershed Premium Awakening 2010
2011 - Xanadu 2008
Xanadu’s Recent Wine Trophies -
by Capital City
2023 - National Show - Cabernet 2019
2022 - Brisbane – Reserve Cabernet 2019
2022 - Perth – Reserve Cabernet 2020
2022 - Adelaide - Cabernet 2020
2021 - Perth - Cabernet 2019
2021 - Brisbane - Cabernet 2019
2021 - National Show - Cabernet 2019
2019 - Brisbane - Cabernet 2017
2019 - Perth - DJL Cabernet 2017
2019 - Adelaide - Cabernet 2017
2019 - Melbourne - Cabernet 2017
2019 - Canberra - Cabernet 2017
2018 - Melbourne - Cabernet 2016
2018 - Canberra - Stevens Road Cabernet 2016
The Context
Xanadu have won:
9 of the past 10 Best Cabernet Trophies
at our National Wine Show in Canberra,
& The Jimmy Watson Trophy,
and multiple Trophies each for
Best SBS Blends,
Best Chardonnays of Show,
Best White Wines of Show,
Best Rose’s of Show,
Best Cabernets of Show and
Best Red Wines of Show … &
Tysons Stelzer’s
Best Cabernet Sauvignon of the year …
and James Halliday’s second ever
99 point Table Wine,
Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year
& Wine of the Year. etc
~
These Guys… are one of the 3 great West Australian
wineries dominating the 7 Capital City Wine Show Circuit.
Erin Larkin on Glen Goodall -
This attention to detail and regional focus result in excellence at every price point, which is why Xanadu was additionally nominated for the 2023 Halliday Best Value Winery of the year. “The wines are made to an exceptional standard at every price point, showcasing their deep understanding of both the art of winemaking and the terroir of the region”
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The Critics Scores & Points
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Our Price: $39
95 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
94 Points Stuart Knox, The Real Review
This medium-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon has filigree tannins, neat acidity, and a radicchio bitterness to finish. It reveals blackcurrant, tobacco leaf, and wakame aromas with great length.
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 Magnum
Our Price: $91
95 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
94 Points Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
A lovely dark, deep purple color with complex aromas of blackberries, pencil shavings, and dried herbs. The medium to full-bodied palate is balanced with black fruits and textured tannins.
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 Magnum
Our Price: $189
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
95 Points Toni Paterson, The Real Review
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Winner of the Jimmy Watson Trophy 2018, this Cabernet includes malbec and petit verdot. It features cassis, fresh plump fruit, and powerful tannic drive, with a beautiful core of red and black berries.
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Our Price: $100
95 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
This wine from a challenging season shows aromas of red currant, violet, and floral notes. The structured and detailed palate is medium-bodied, promising to open up with time.
Xanadu Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
Our Price: $145
98 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
96 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
This single parcel Cabernet features cassis, bay leaf, and herb notes. The full-bodied palate is intense with finely integrated tannins and a long, persistent finish.
Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Our Price: $114
99 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
97 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
96+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
This Cabernet has highly perfumed aromas of mulberry, dark chocolate, and blackcurrant. The palate is full-bodied with black fruit, dark plum, and bright expressiveness.
Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Our Price: $114
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
97 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
97 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
97 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
This wine showcases bright perfumed blackcurrant and mulberry aromas. It has a seamless palate with fine tannins and leafy red fruit aromatics.
Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Magnum
Our Price: $308
98 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
96 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
This Cabernet features bright, youthful, deep purple/red color. The aromas are fragrant with blackberry, floral, violet, and red fruit notes. The palate is elegant, stylish, long, and finely crafted.
Xanadu Chardonnay 2023 (New Release)
Our Price: $38
This striking Chardonnay offers purity, elegance, and complexity. Medium-bodied with white fleshed nectarines, citrus, and nashi pears.
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Stevens Road Chardonnay 2022 (New Release)
Our Price: $99
98 Points, Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
This Chardonnay strikes a balance between power and finesse, featuring citrussy notes, stone fruit, and a touch of oyster shell minerality. The bright, lively palate with deep intensity leads to a long finish.
Xanadu Stevens Road Chardonnay 2017
Our Price: $115
95 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
93 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Elegant and fresh with notes of capers, grilled peach, and lanolin. This Chardonnay is pithy, fine, and textural, showing more evolution in the fruit.
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2022 (New Release)
Our Price: $115
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
This vintage features distinct pear and lime characters with notes of oatmeal and cashew. The palate is layered, revealing quince, lemon pith, and grapefruit, leading to a long, dry finish.
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2021
Our Price: $144
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Review
97 Points Christina Pickard, Wine Enthusiast
96+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
This Chardonnay boasts spicy grapefruit aromas and a bright chalky acidity. The palate pulses with energy, combining lemon zest acidity and creamy texture for a long finish.
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2019
Our Price: $144
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
98 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
97 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
96 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
This Chardonnay is balanced with cashew, butterscotch, and roasted cashew flavors, finishing with a minerally lingering taste. It’s elegant, lacy, savory, and salty, with a baritone of fruit, oak, and spice.
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2017
Our Price: $145
96 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
95+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
The 2017 Reserve Chardonnay features notes of mango skin, peach, and red apples with brûlée top and cheesecloth. The phenolics and acid bring all the elements together for a vibrant, searingly focused palate.
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 (New Release)
Our Price: $39
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Our Price: $39
95 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
94 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
This Cabernet Sauvignon is lush with cassis, raspberry, licorice, and bramble. The tannins show texture and the finish is creamy and svelte.
The Critics Reviews
Xanadu Chardonnay 2023 (New Release), Our Price $38
This striking Chardonnay offers purity, elegance and complexity. Medium bodied offering white fleshed nectarines, citrus and nashi pears.
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Xanadu Stevens Road Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $99
This is generally a fine and more delicate Chardonnay compared to the Reserve. It works really well in this season, striking the balance between power and finesse. More citrussy than the Reserve with notes of stone fruit, popcorn and just a little oyster shell minerality. The crystalline palate is bright and lively with a deep intensity focused keenly to a long finish. Wonderful mouthfeel.
98 points, Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
Xanadu Stevens Road Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $115
From the bottom 20 rows of the vineyard, Gingin clone, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French oak (25% new), stirred throughout 9 months maturation, no mlf. More elegant than many of Margaret River's best, lower alcohol and higher acidity one reason. Neither sibling relies on oak, this with a laser-bright singular flavour signature.
95 Points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
The 2017 Stevens Road Chardonnay is salty and has notes of capers, grilled peach and that same lanolin/cheesecloth character that is present in the Black Label. It is pithy, fine and textural. This is very good, showing more evolution in the fruit than some of the older wines on the table—classically 2017.
93 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $115
Product of the excellent, albeit quite small, ’22 vintage. Heady stuff on the nose with distinct pear and edgy lime characters with notes of oatmeal and cashew. The palate is layered with nuances emerging at every turn. A crystalline edginess cuts through, while complex flavours of quince, lemon pith and grapefruit reveal. There’s a dry savouriness that completes the palate which carries through to a very long finish. This has lots of cellaring time ahead of it.
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
Light colour, youthful wine; fresh/young and undeveloped all round. The aromas are shy and reserved and oak is there but quite low-key. In the mouth we see grapefruit and lemon and their acidities which give the wine a tension and bracingly taut structure, not quite austere, and it would dearly appreciate more time in the cellar to unwind its potential. Smoky/flinty reduction appears with time and swirling in the glass. It will surely be a stunner in another year or so.
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2021, Our Price $144
Spicy grapefruit aromas with a little lemon curd. The palate is super intense and linear with a bright chalky acidity pushing it through to a very long finish.
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
The power and beauty of Margaret River fruit are on full display with all the refinement and detail that comes with it. The palate pulses with energy, there’s texture via lees, and judicious handling of oak and fruit, of course. The tensile yet fine acidity weaves everything together towards a super-long finish.
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Review
A margarita-style Chardonnay if ever there was one, this feels like you're standing at the edge of the Indian Ocean (less than four miles from where these grapes are grown) on a brisk day, the salty sea air whipping, the sand between your toes, a lemon twist martini in hand. As delicious as it is evocative, it pings in the mouth with a lightly creamy texture and mouthwatering, laser-like, lemon zest acidity that lingers long on the finish, making it impossible to put down.
97 Points Christina Pickard, Wine Enthusiast
The 2021 Reserve Chardonnay is concentrated and creamy. The fruit is spearheaded by white peach and crushed cashews, red apple skins and a javelin of acidity that sails through it all. Coasting along, as it does in the mouth, the wine presents an unbroken stream of flavour and streamlined phenolics. It is tight, taut and a little tense at this stage, but the shimmer of exhaust through the finish shows power, persistence and pedigree. The three "p's." It's delicate, in its way. Super wine.
96+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
All old, Gingin clone chardonnay. Nougat, praline, creamed cashew, curd, white peach, pear sorbet and salubrious oak, impeccably integrated. Smoky, reductive and pungent without any constraint on the fruit. Mid-weighted, pristine and punchy, with an edge of chew for complexity. Yet a non-malolactic approach to crafting chardonnay may retain acidity, but it struggles to parlay the complexity in youth that will come with time. Be patient. A lovely, mid-weighted wine of scintillating length. Drinkable now, but best from 2025.
96 Points Ned Godwin, jamessuckling.com
Light, bright and lively in appearance. Nutty, nougat aromas along with white stone fruit, grapefruit, mineral and wet stone. Complex, tightly bound and focused on the palate. There's a core drive of citrus and mineral along with a mealy, nutty edge, the acidity has real purpose and poise and there's a nice lick of phenolic grip bringing texture and mouthfeel. Serious chardonnay, built to last.
95 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2019 , Our Price $144
Gold Medal – Perth Royal Wine Show 2021
Gold Medal – Margaret Rive Wine Awards 2021
Gold Medal – Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2021
Gold Medal – Perth Royal Wine Show 2020
Gold Medal – Margaret River Wine Awards 2020
Gold Medal – Wine Show of Western Australia 2020
The basis of this memorable chardonnay is the best batches of fruit from the original Lagan Estate vineyard. Power and poise captured expertly with clever winemaking. The cooler vintage has certainly influenced the structure and intensity, with a more subtle understated expression. Yet as the wine begins it’s journey along the palate it starts to release its payload. Impeccably balanced with cashew, butterscotch brittle and roasted cashew flavours faintly evident. Complex with a minerally lingering finish.
98 points, Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
The 2019 Reserve Chardonnay is elegant, lacy, savory and salty, with a reverberating baritone of fruit, oak and spice. This is monumentally good, and although it is drinking beautifully now, it will only improve. The peak drinking window will be (*consults crystal ball*) in 2026. Godspeed—it'll be great on either side, too.
98 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
As ever, sophisticated, lithe, glassy and svelte. Through the lens of the cool 2019 vintage, this wine has a scintillating energy, the acid jolts a burst of life onto the tongue, stinging it into life. The length of flavour goes on and on. Xanadu chardonnays have a proven track record of graceful ageing in the cellar, often not truly coming into their own until 3+ years after release. Pedigree, in a word.
97 points, Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
Light straw-yellow colour, with a subtle grapefruit aroma swaddled in smoky, nutty barrel-derived nuances, the palate briskly tart with elevated acidity and citrus characters that are almost strident. Lemon and grapefruit, accompanied by tangy acidity that seems a trifle disconnected. Still very impressive. Tremendous focused intensity. It's a bit young to drink solo, but has great potential. Give it time to settle and you'll have a spectacular chardonnay.
96 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $145
From the Lagan Estate, the oldest vineyard in the Xanadu portfolio, hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in French oak (30% new), the barrels stirred over the 9-month maturation period, no mlf. Shares the elegance of its Stevens Road sibling, but the fruit has a touch more white peach and nectarine (alongside grapefruit) in its makeup.
96 points, James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
The 2017 Reserve Chardonnay has notes of mango skin, peach and red apples, with brûlée top, cheesecloth and lanolin through the finish. The phenolics and acid rise up in tandem and bring all of the elements of this wine together. This is the star release of the 2017 Chardonnays, and it has plenty of time to go from here.
95+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Light, bright yellow-green colour. The aroma is straightforward, fresh and fruit-driven, with bell-clear grapefruit aroma. There is vibrant fruit flavour and tangy acidity combining to give a medium-bodied, intense, searingly focused palate that is crisp, dry and taut. It has drive and persistence, and potential for the future. It's backward and high-acid at present.
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 (New Release), Our Price $39
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $39
It’s fine boned in a way, as it’s just medium-bodied with filigree tannins, neat acidity and a radicchio bitterness to finish. I kept coming back to this wine – it unfurled in the glass but also, a few days later, still impressive.
95 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Deep and rich ruby from core to rim. Blackcurrant, tobacco leaf and wakame aromas. Medium to full weight of black fruits fills the central channel of the palate, running off this we see a dark seaside minerality and hints of tobacco and cedar. Great length, built by firm yet ripe tannins that control and drive without overpowering. This all leads to a very long and lingering finish
94 Points Stuart Knox, The Real Review
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Our Price $39
With 8/3% malbec/petit verdot. Matured for 14 months in French oak (40% new). Perfumed, pure and very pretty. The three 'p's' for success. In the mouth the wine is all that the nose promised, the very fine tannins curve and shape the fruit. Very smart. Tasted alongside wines 3+ times the price of this and it still held its own. The finish is creamy and svelte.
95 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
If 2020 had a calling card, it would be: "1800 tanin 'n fruit." The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon is lush and abundant, veritably spilling over with cassis, raspberry, licorice and bramble. The tannins, too, show their 2020 roots in the firm swell of texture in the mouth. It seems a shame to age this, such is the seductive guile of the youthful fruit at this stage, however it will only increase in complexity and spice as it gets older. Choose your player.
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Deep and bright purple-red colour, classic blackberry cabernet aromas, sweet and pure, the palate backing up with intense fruit and firm tannins contributing a solid backbone that will ensure it ages gracefully. While a mite straightforward now, it will build complexity with some cellar time.
94 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 Magnum, Our Price $91
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 Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
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.
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
92% cabernet sauvignon, 5% petit verdot, 3% malbec. 4 weeks on skins. 40% new French oak for 14 months. Olive paste, gum leaf and blackcurrant flavours flow slowly into cedar wood and vanilla cream, the latter more texture than overt flavour. It sits at the upper end of medium weight, the flavours cruising through the mouth with confident ease.
94 Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 Magnum, Our Price $189
Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner 2018
Includes 5% malbec and 3% petit verdot, crushed and destemmed, a wine of many components, mainly small batch ferments (static and open fermenters), pumping over and plunging, part extended maceration (4 weeks), matured for 12 months in French oak (40% new). Focused and powerful, the deep but bright colour a come-on. Cassis is given context by cabernet tannins, which are firm, not dry.
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
This wine has a beautiful colour with great intensity and brightness. It is youthful, with a beautiful core of red and black berries. Great palate density supported by a line of fresh acidity and fine framing tannin. It is not quite ready to drink now though it will age gracefully and will be well worth the wait
95 Points Toni Paterson, The Real Review
Italian mountain herbs begin to emerge from the saltbush and licorice that adorn the nose of the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon. Fresh plump fruit on the palate does nothing to obscure the powerful tannic drive that this wine is in possession of. As with many of the 2016s, this has eons to go. Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at the Melbourne Wine Show for this vintage.
94 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $100
This was quite a challenging season in many ways, being cooler and quite wet, yet when the fruit has been well managed you finish with top class wines. This is in line with the vineyard and vintage, being slightly angular and fine with aromas of red currant, muted violet and other floral notes. The structured and quite detailed palate is medium bodied. Right now, it is closely held but with time in the bottle it will open up. Make sure you decant first.
95 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
Xanadu Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Our Price $145
A single parcel of fruit from the bottom of Block 3, which consistently produces some of the best Xanadu cabernet each vintage, separately fermented and treated with kid gloves, matured in French oak (38% new) for 14 months. Top gold National Wine Show '18. Beautifully made, and you can see the quality of the fruit shining through like a beacon, supple and fine, cassis to the fore, touches of bay leaf and herb barely glimpsed.
98 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Deepish red colour with a good purple tint. The bouquet is classy: violets and blue fruits, red berries as well, all in harmony and no sign of greenness. Oak is there but in harmony; the palate full-bodied and intense with penetrating drive and refreshing properties. A lovely wine: focused and intense, persistent and very elegant, the tannins fine and discreet but very present.
96 points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Our Price $114
Trophy – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards, Best Wine of the Show
Trophy – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards, Best Western Australian Wine
Trophy – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards, Best Western Australian Dry Red Table Wine
Trophy – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards, Best Cabernet Sauvignon
Trophy – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards, Best Red Table Wine
Gold Medal – 2023 Royal Queensland Wine Awards
Gold Medal – 2022 Royal Queensland Wine Awards
Gold Medal – 2022 Perth Royal Wine Awards
There have been some wonderful 2020 cabernets from Margaret River but none better than this. What a glorious statement of the region and a great vintage. Highly perfumed aromas of mulberry, dark chocolate and blackcurrant with a little plum and dried herb edging in. The palate is full-bodied with immense power. Black fruit, dark plum and some wild berry action with oak that has been almost lyrically laid. Bright and vital with a lithe expressiveness that is pure joy.
99 Points, Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
What’s the point of writing anything about this wine? Really. But you’ve come this far so I’ll add the reason: It’s complete, exceptional and beguiling. The best Margaret River cabernet exemplifies those alluring characters. OK, you want to know more. It’s heady with mulberries, cassis and damson plum, wakame and squid ink. Medium bodied, plush and velvety across the palate thanks to sublime tannins with an outrageously long finish. This is irresistible.
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Deep, bright and youthful red-purple colour; the bouquet is essence of cabernet—cassis, violet and mulberry leap from the glass, a hint of nori, while oak treatment is subtle and has been well suited to the style of fruit. Full body, ample soft/fine tannins and superior length. An impressive mouthful of fair dinkum cabernet.
97 points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
The 2020 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is firm and plush, with layers of tannin and dark fruit. The season was warm, dry and low yielding, and the wines are concentrated and structural.
96+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Aromas of dried sage, blue fruit allusions, mint, boysenberries and the signature black currant. The tannins, a thickly textured scape across the mouth, rolled with lavender, black olive, peony and lilac. The underlying freshness, iodine and maritime. An impressive, full-weighted wine that needs time. Best after 2025. Screw cap.
94 Points Ned Goodwin MW, Jamessuckling.com
Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019, Our Price $114
Trophy: Best Cabernet Sauvignon – The National Wine Show 2021
Trophy: Best Cabernet Sauvignon - Royal Queensland 2022
Gold Medal – The Royal Queensland Show 2022
Gold Medal – The National Wine Show 2021
Gold Medal – Royal Perth Wine Awards 2021
The 2019 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is awesome, with layer upon layer of flavor—all of them settling on each other like fine sheets of tissue. It gives up notes of blood, ferrous, iodine, pomegranate, raspberry, tobacco, aniseed, saltbush, bay leaf, matcha (green tea), bramble and undergrowth. Beetroot, fennel and more more more. What a wine. As usual, the style of this is svelte and restrained, and the tannins are the final icing on the cake: fine, shapely and structuring, spooling out through the long finish. It's a little bit chewy but slinky and supple. Delicious. Phwoar.
97 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
A blend of 92% cabernet, 4% petit verdot and 4% malbec, which was fermented in small open fermenters and then matured in a mix of 45% new and the remainder older French oak for 14 months. Brighter perfumed blackcurrant and plummy mulberry aromas with a hint of cedar. Seamlessly integrated palate with chalky fine tannins. Has a leafy red fruit aromatic that snuggles into the deeper dark fruit concentration.
98 Points Ray Jordan, winepilot.com
Sometimes, you gotta start at the end of a wine, rather than the front. Usually it is because the wine is so long, that the first flavours are long forgotten. Such is life, here. The tannins, which are laced like a fine silky web through the finish, capture the pure fruit on the mid palate and coax it through the mouth. Caught also, like fine droplets of dew in a spider's web, are pockets of spice which add pop and thrill to the overall. Another scintillating and pure cabernet release from the team at Xanadu.
97 Points, Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
Deep red purple colour, the bouquet spotlessly clean and bell-clear varietal with cassis cabernet fruit shining out brightly. Cedary overtones too. The wine is massively intense on the palate, concentrated and powerful, with abundant tannins which are fine and supple, ripe and harmonious. Tremendous depth and power, poise and precision: a really stunning young cabernet that deserves cellaring and will richly repay the wait.
97 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Youthful, bright and purply-red colour in the glass. Classic cabernet aromas of cassis, graphite, cedar, blackberry and a cool menthol and tobacco lift. The flavours are driven by lashings of dark-berry fruits, brambly, earthy underbrush, cedar and sappy spices. Firm, textured tannins and lively acidity round the wine out very nicely. A smart wine now but built for the long-haul.
96 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Xanadu Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Magnum, Our Price $308
Cabernet doesn't come more intense than this without losing its shape; here it parlays into purity and precision. The fruit and tannins have well and truly absorbed the oak. You might think this can't be consumed now, but it can - the final achievement.
98 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Bright, youthful, deep purple/red colour. The aromas are very fragrant, inviting and loaded with blackberry, floral, violet and red fruit aromas, the palate also offering intense violets, red fruits and dried herbs, very complex and cabbish. An elegant cabernet, stylish, long and finely crafted. Great cellaring potential.
96 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Elegant and streamlined, the 2013 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is punctuated and propped by very fine tannins. They have a gravelly bent to the texture that prompts chewing after the wine has gone. This is fresh but already imbued with savory, bloody spice.
94 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate