17 of Xanadu’s Finest
New & Museum Releases
Hosted by Winemakers
Glen Goodall & Sophie Ward
Including 5 x Vintage Verticals…
4 x Reserve Chardonnay - “17 “19 “21 “22
2 x Stevens Road Chardonnay - “17 “22
5 x Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon - “16 “18 “20 “21 “22
3 x Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon - “13 “19 “20
2 x Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon - “16 “21
Lunch: 12-3pm, 17 Wines & 5 Courses, $195
Sunday June 16th
(The menu & wine list for these events is below)
Purchase your tickets below or alternatively put a booking request through here!
The Context…
Xanadu has won the 9 in a row
of the most recent Best Cabernet Sauvignon Trophies
in Canberra… and 10 of the past 11!!
Against the entire country …
& The Stats…
Xanadu with only 0.04% of 1% (or 0.00036%!!)… of Australia’s wine production,
dominates the Australian Capital Wine Show Circuit.
Glenn Goodall, the chief winemaker
(James Halliday’s Wine Maker of the Year 2023)
& his team at Xanadu have tallied up
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 Wine List
On Arrival
Xanadu Chardonnay 2023 (New Release), Our Price $38
1st Course
Stevens Road Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $87
Stevens Road Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $93
Abrolhos half shell scallops, sambal butter, Jamon bits
2nd Course
Reserve Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $144
Reserve Chardonnay 2021, Our Price $114
Reserve Chardonnay 2019 , Our Price $114
Reserve Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $125
Tomato tart tatin, fraiche, basil oil
3rd Course
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 (New Release), Our Price $39
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $39
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, Our Price $91
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 Magnum, Our Price $189
Jimmy Watson Trophy Winner 2018
Roasted baby carrots & parsnips, white romesco, salsa verde
4th Course
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $77
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Our Price $77
Twice cooked lamb shoulder, melted beetroot, pomegranate, baby spinach & fetta
5th Course
Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Our Price $114
Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019, Our Price $114
Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 Magnum, Our Price $308
Shadows of Blue, sourdough, quince
The Wine Reviews
Stevens Road Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $87
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
Stevens Road Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $93
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
Reserve Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $144
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
Reserve Chardonnay 2021, Our Price $114
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
Reserve Chardonnay 2019 , Our Price $114
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
Reserve Chardonnay 2017, Our Price $125
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
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
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, 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
Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon (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
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $77
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
Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Our Price $77
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
4th Course
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
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
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