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| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2033 (based on 14 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Inny on 12/21/2020 & rated 91 points: Quite a beaut cab. (565 views) | | | Tasted by Jase80 on 5/10/2020 & rated 91 points: Very smooth, very balanced and very pleasant drinking. It is however missing a wow factor which at this price you hope wasnt the case. (584 views) | | | Tasted by LizAlex on 5/9/2020: Nice smooth deep cab sav (531 views) | | | Tasted by LizAlex on 5/6/2020: Heavy richness (553 views) | | | Tasted by Porters Wines on 5/21/2019 & rated 86 points: Thought this would give more, it’s a bit unbalanced.
Dies mid palate, I can think of better WA cabby’s for cheaper...
It would be interesting to see if you leave towards the supposed 2030 drink date....I’d drink it. (772 views) | | | Tasted by Avid Wino on 2/3/2018 & rated 91 points: Mulberry, blackberry, cigar box, coffee grounds, savoury complexity and minerality. Many aspects of this wine worthy of a higher rating but acidity and alcohol not quite in balance, for mine. (841 views) | | | Tasted by LindsayM on 1/5/2018 & rated 92 points: This was a free bottle for renewing Wine Companion membership so I guess I was expecting a few more reviews , anyway
Bordeaux blend 85% cabernet sauvignon, 9% merlot, 9% Cab Franc matured for 18 months in French oak.
This wine needs decanting for 1-2 hours
Deepish red colour with a brick-red tinge The nose is quite complex tobacco/cedar cigarbox nuances. A hint of coffee and chocolate Palate full bodied , black fruits savoury and complex, layered and deep, very much primary fruit flavours , fresh good balance of acidity and tannins .
Overall Classic WA Cabernet , just needs time to fully intergrate (897 views) | | | Tasted by C'est la Vin on 6/2/2017 & rated 95 points: Super sexy premium cabernet time with Margaret River’s Thompson Estate. A little rough treatment in the decanter fills the room with luscious fragrances while a raise of the glass provides fruit power, tannic punch and oak mayhem on the palate. Sticks to the gums, blue fruits and some red deeper raspberry with a slight astringency to close. Too young without air, but one that will wow the crowd with its chutzpah.
https://cestlavine.com/2017/06/02/2013-thompson-estate-the-specialist-cabernet-sauvignon/ (1313 views) |
| Thompson Estate Producer Website
Jane and Peter Thompson purchased the Thompson Estate property in 1994, and the first plantings of chardonnay and pinot were in 1997, followed by the cabernet plantings in 1998. New plantings include new Burgundian clones of chardonnay, a total of 20 hectares under vine.
From the outset at Thompson Estate, the focus has been on high quality wine production and this has been recognized in a large number of wine show medals and accolades from the wine press. The most treasured has been the recognition by James Halliday, Australia’s premier wine critic, that Thompson Estate is a Five Red Star winery, placing it in the top echelon of Australian wineries.
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The original model of winemaking reflected Peter’s medical background and was based on the medical specialty model of choosing the best specialist to make each wine. Some of the early vintages were produced at the nearby Pierro winery since, from 1990 to 2008, the Thompsons were also part owners of Pierro.
This careful selection of specialist winemakers produced some stunning wines, but the management challenge of dealing with wine production in five different wineries became too complex, and a state of the art winery was designed and built on the property. The first vintage in the new winery was 2009.
The vineyard gains unique advantages from its Wilyabrup location. John Gladstones’ seminal work in the 1960’s showed that Margaret River had climatic features similar to the great years of Bordeaux. His predictions have been borne out and the Margaret River region is now recognized as one of the premium winegrape growing areas in the world. Wilyabrup has been identified on detailed meteorological studies to be an ideal location for the production of high quality wine.
Wilyabrup has the ideal number of sun exposure days per year for optimal ripening, and is surrounded by sea on three sides on the South West cape of Western Australia, allowing the cooling maritime breezes to keep the fruit cool and add intensity of flavours similar to the great years of the Bordeaux region of France. Thompson Estate and its immediate neighbours in Wilyabrup produce some of Australia’s “icon status” chardonnays and cabernets.
It is with some pride and fascination for Peter Thompson, a cardiologist, that Vasse Felix, the first vineyard in Margaret River, and Thompson Estate’s next door neighbor, was planted in Wilyabrup by Dr Tom Cullity, a cardiologist who was a mentor for Peter.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonAustralia Wine Australia (Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation) | Australian Wines (Wikipedia)Western Australia Wine Regions of Western AustraliaMargaret Riverhttps://margaretriver.wine/ |
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