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Monday, December 25, 2017 - Opened a couple of hours ahead of a leisurely home-cooked Christmas lunch at our rented place in the Margaret River. Bought from the local Woolworths supermarket for US$50. Totally opaque dense black-ruby colour. Nose is dense but alluring sun-warmed black asphalt road and dense confit but fresh smelling blackcurrant and hints of vanilla. Palate is immediate blackcurrant pastilles followed by great fresh blackcurrant acidity and immediate resonance inside the head even on the mid palate... then a dryish firm tannic structured finish that shows its youth. Fabulous length, resonance and reverberance on the finale. Elegant and powerful... beautifully made and exhibiting all the purity and powerful elegance of really top-tier Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon. Young but already drinking splendidly and this will continue to improve over the coming 5 years for sure. All that said, you have to accept that the Margaret River style of Cabernet Sauvignon (and Shiraz) is very thin and feminine by the standards of most countries or even other parts of Australia. This is a monster by Margaret River standards (we drank the 2011 a few days later, which was much thinner). Merry Christmas! 92+

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