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Howard Park Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
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The 2008 Howard Park Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon is opaque red with a purple rim. The nose is filled with blackberry, cedar, tomato leaf, dusty bitumen road and chocolate representing each distinctive component of the harmonious Great Southern and Margaret River blend. On the palate, the Great Southern fruit parcels provide the structural backbone and line of the wine while the Margaret River component lifts the aromatics adding flesh and complexity. The palate starts with a rush of plush red berry fruit and reaches its zenith with damp earth and forest floor complexity balanced by ultrafine powdery and layered tannins. The finish displays the class of the selected vineyards with long fruit and structural elements balanced by supporting mocha oak.
The 2008 season will be regarded as a classic Western Australian vintage; every variety ripened to perfection without racing, colours were opaque and deep and tannins ripe and supple. The reds will be long lived examples of their styles.
95 points - "A powerful, long-lived Howard Park, this is a honed wine of excellent length, fine-grained, graphite-like tannins and integrated oak. There's all the varietal flavour you would expect along the way - blackcurrants, cassis, capsicum and leaf. All it needs is a decade." - Tyson Stelzer, Wine100 (Aus), July 2010.
"Just put your nose into this - it's positively erotic for a cabernet fancier. Red fruits, some hints of liquorice, beautiful cedary oak, cassis, blackcurrant and violets. Medium-bodied, firm but very fine. Beautiful shape and structure. Impeccable tannin. Length to burn. Just bottled but it shines. Top wine. Some tobaccoey cabernet flavours on exit. Not heavy. Classic." -POINTS: 97. Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, The Big Red Wine Book 2010/2011, 1 June 2010
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| Don't Pay: $86
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WBW Rating: 97/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Great Southern WA |
Winemaker: Tony David, Genevive Stols
Drink now until: 2022
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