Our 2007 ‘Margaret’ is a blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 16% Malbec. The wine has spent 18 months in French oak barrels, of which two thirds were new and the remainder one year old. Intense deep crimson colour, the nose of this wine shows rich briar cedar aromatics with hints of cassis and blackcurrant. The palate is rich, even, and seamless with powerful blackcurrant flavours. The wine shows great balance and richness, great acidity and long ripe tannins. A gold medal winner at this year’s Margaret River Wine Show, we consider our 2007 ‘Margaret’ to be our best yet! This wine will be best enjoyed from 2015 -2020.
Gold Medal - Margaret River Wine Show
A long-term classic, with finely honed power and exceptional balance. Its heady, brambly scents of violets, cassis blackberries blueberries and raspberries are underpinned by smoky cedar/mocha/vanilla oak with undertones of dark cherries. Remarkably long, smooth and focused, its very polished, plush palate is saturated with intense fruit and tight-grained oak and tightly knit with firm, but silky-fine tannins, offering a tightly controlled measure of voluptuous depth and expression rare in Australian cabernet. (19.3/97, YTD 2019-2027+) Jeremy Oliver
Crimson-red; an austere wine taking its cue from Bordeaux, partly from the savoury black fruits and partly from the tannins; deliberately early picked. Screwcap. 13.5% alc. Rating 94 Drink 2020 $39.50 Date Tasted Feb 09 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2010
Woodlands Margaret Cabernet 2007 ($60) Although the vineyard was established way back in 1973 in Wilyabrup in Margaret River, it's only been since around 2001 that Woodlands has concentrated on making wine under its own label rather than supplying fruit to other producers as it had done for its previous three decades. The cabernets, in particular, are superb, and their flagship Margaret Cabernet Merlot, to be released in April and made from 67 per cent Cabernet, 17 per cent Merlot and 16 per cent Cabernet Franc is truly worth hunting down. Philip Rich, of The Australian Financial Review Magazine
Purple red in colour, the nose is classic Margaret River Cabernet blend: Blackberry and blackcurrant, rosemary, spice, leather & fragrant herbaceous overtones, backed by low level, edge smoothing oak. Its so perfect and pure and awesome-o. The palate? The palate just relays the perfection of the nose, with red berries, cedar, gum leaf & tannins that go on and on. Its almost perfectly ripe erring on the leafy side (which I like) and sits at the ideologically perfect 13.5% alcohol mark. Already a lovely drink, already balanced (in the true style of great wines) and it will continue to evolve for a decade without quibbles. Buy it right now. 19.0 Points; Andrew Graham; Oz Wine Review