Lenton Brae Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2023 6 Pack

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2023 Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon comprises 13% Malbec and 5% Petit Verdot, alongside the mainstay Cabernet Sauvignon. Both aromatically and on the palate, the wine is elegant and fine, with chalky tannins and good length through the finish. There are notes of sage, saltbush, nori, sandalwood, paprika and raspberry. This is an impressive release from a brilliant year. Bravo. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

94 POINTS

Ray Jordan

You’re doing pretty well when you can get a cabernet sauvignon from this great vintage in Margaret River for less than $40. The slightly cooler season with its longer ripening time has enabled the fruit to build impressively balanced flavours with refined body. Carries the typical blackcurrant and bay leaf notes with a rich core of dark chocolate. The fine chalky tannins and oak add structure to focus and extend the palate.

93 POINTS

Cyndal Petty - Winepilot

Bay leaf, gravel dust and black fruit. It’s sticky and scrumptious. A very likeable and comforting Margaret River Cabernet. Black-skinned-cherries, blackberries, black skinned plums. Black, black, black. Ow, and shaved timber. A wine in alignment. It gives value and hits the spot. The support structure is well-built and decorated with pristine fruit. Everything’s definitely in order here. Drink whilst listening to Jimi Hendrix after 7pm.

92 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

No question this is varietal as much as regional. Cassis, mulberries, black olives, nori and wafts of raspberry leaf and eucalyptus. Medium-weighted and still very much in a primary phase with all that bolshie if bright fruit, grainy if sinewy tannins and plenty of acidity in tow. It’s a good wine and, in time, will garner more complexity.

91 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Sourced from estate fruit planted in 1983 and a neighbouring vineyard, also 40 years old. Blue and red fruit, violet perfume, bay leaf and baking spice, a slight cut red chilli thing here too. It’s medium to full-bodies, has some hazelnut chocolate richness in the mix, balanced acidity, some ripeness, though with a cinch of herb and red capsicum, tannin is firm with a sort of beer nut grip, and the finish is pretty good too. It’s maybe a little bit edgy, though leans into the house style in that way.

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Angus Hughson - Vinous

The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Wilyabrup offers plush aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant, with firm cedary oak. Dark berry flavors are accented by punchy acidity and edgy tannins that require some time to settle.

Angus Hughson - Vinous

The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon is perfumed with layers of violets, musk and spice underscored by a powerful backdrop of sweet cassis. Sinewy tannins and angular acidity are heavy set and currently overshadow understated flavors. This may come good in time.