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2009 Xanadu Stevens Road Cabernet Sauvignon

If fruit, alcohol, oak and tannin could fade to reveal nothing but the pure essence of Margaret River cabernet at its most distinctive, what remains would be characterised in both texture and flavour by gravel, wet slate, graphite and high cocoa dark chocolate. In this ideal, Xanadu's new single vineyard cabernet is more articulate than any other Margaret River has birthed in the recent era.

Wine Taste Weekly, Tyson Stelzer, May 2012