Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

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One of Australia’s most collected Cabernets? This is it 🇦🇺🍷

The 2021 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is a flagship Margaret River red—and one of Australia’s most refined and age-worthy Cabernets.

Recognised as a Classified (Second Growth) in Langton’s Classification, it’s a wine that delivers serious pedigree and consistency, vintage after vintage.

Expect layers of blackcurrant, cherries, aniseed, clove and bay leaf, woven with lavender, cedar, graphite and fine tannins. The structure is firm yet polished, with a long savoury finish and real potential for decades in the cellar.

Art Series is about more than just flavour—it’s a legacy. With rotating labels from leading Australian artists, each vintage tells a story of culture, place and time.

Drink now, or cellar - it'll only get better.

Drink window,2025 to 2041
Type,Red wine
Varietals,Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage,2021
ABV,13.5%
Country,Australia
Region,Margaret River
Sub region,Western Australia
Bottle size,750ml
Bottle closure,Screw top

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Flavour & structure
Black fruitChocolate & mochaFine tanninsLong finish
Food pairing
Red meatSteak & BBQ

What the experts say about this wine

A fascinating wine which offers all the amazing qualities that Margaret River Cabernet possesses, but it walks the fine line with nuances of Bordeaux, more than most. It works wonderfully well. The wine incorporates 2% Malbec. All up, the wine spends 22 months in French oak. Crimson/blood red hue, it offers entrancing complexity. There are notes of tobacco leaves, black fruits, chocolate, smoked meats, licorice, a touch of ever-so-slightly charry cloves and quality oak, which is superbly handled here. A silky texture, this is a wine of balance and length with the finest tannins. Intensity runs the full length. Eerily reminiscent of an Aussie version of Bordeaux (or possibly a Bordeaux version of Marg River?). Whichever, it is a cracking wine. Drink for twelve to fifteen years. Drink 2024-2039.

The 2021 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is lighter in color and tannic intensity than the 2020 tasted beside it. No surprise for the vintages that birthed these wines. The latter was sunny, hot and dry, while the 2021 season was decidedly cooler, with more cloud cover and rain. This wine bears the fruits of the diligent labor in the vineyards and is one of the shining lights in the region this year. There are notes of raspberry and nori, moss and petrichor, blood and forest floor. This is a lighter style of Cabernet—and a lovely one at that. Drink 2025-2041.

Immediately captivating: the nose is vibrant and energetic, while simultaneously the epitome of elegance and poise with restrained fruit power. This is a silk evening gown of a wine: form-fitting, precisely tailored, mellifluous and effortlessly chic. Abundant in aromatics and lifted perfume, fine red fruits include wild strawberry tip, bramble and just-ripe blackcurrant, alongside hints of piquancy: Szechwan pepper, clove and a fine dusting of deep, lightly toasted cocoa powder. There’s a charismatic iodine weave, the savoury and slightly saline minerality proving a foil to both the fruit flesh and the floral hues. Displaying extremely fine-grained tannins, it's firm, focused and delicate, with a graphite line, fresh acidity and plenty that will reveal itself in good time. Tasted pre-release. Drink 2024-2046.