The 2020 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend—specifically, 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Malbec. This subtle addition of Malbec adds nuance, color, and a touch of plushness to the otherwise structured Cabernet. This blend showcases a perfect balance of power and elegance, with rich dark fruit and complex savory notes framed by silky tannins and vibrant acidity.

The Wine Advocate | RP 97
Published: Mar 13, 2025
Drink: 2024-2040

The 2020 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is the product of a warm, dry, low-yielding year. The wines are tannic and structural on the whole, and this is no exception. In the mouth, the tannins define the fruit characters, and they frame them, providing chew and shape, along with notes of raspberry, nori, iodine, blood, kelp, cassis, bramble and just a hint of forest floor. Here, in the context of Leeuwin Art Series Cabernets, the wine is tannic. But I vividly recall seeing this wine in an international blind tasting of the 2020 Cabernet vintage and observing that in that context, this same wine looked pure as the driven snow. Context, as they say, is everything.

Decanter | D 96
Published: Oct 1, 2023
Drink: 2024-2044

This vintage is not yet released, but it is already shimmering with verve. The entry is bright and compelling: a heady mix of dried herbs, ripe red berries, salted plum and graphite, the fruit shining through a generous smattering of cedary oak. Imbued with elegance, the acid drive is compelling and assists the supple tannins with a long, fine finish. Like a spiderweb woven with silver thread, the beauty of this wine's tension keeps you suspended until its very last moment on the palate. The finest vintage of Art Series Cabernet yet, a blend of 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Malbec that spent 22 months in French oak barrels, 50% new.
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 98% Cabernet Sauvignon 2% Malbec

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Blackcurrants and dark cherries dominate the nose, alongside anise, clove, cardamom, and bay leaf. The wine is highly lifted and perfumed with lavender and basil flowers on show. Drive, direction and line form the shape and frame of the palate. Dark forest fruits surround cedar, olives, and graphite. There is distinct minerality threaded within, leading to a fine finish, with length and complexity delivered by ripe, silky tannins.

Region: Margaret River, Western Australia
Vintage: 2020
Type: Red Wine
Variety Composition: 98% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Malbec