1998 Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a sassy, audacious Cabernet, perhaps more Cabernet-like than the usual Greenock Creek Cabernet, which is usually more Greenock Creek than Cabernet, if you get the drift. Its bouquet is ripe with coffee, cocoa and tobacco aromas over all that blackcurrant liqueur, and leads to a svelte, slender, lithe and sensuous middle palate, which leads to great velvety finish that carries on and on. It's supple, athletic wine that needs some serious cellaring before you trouble it. 2005 – 2010

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"The 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon (100% Cabernet Sauvignon from 11-year old vines, aged in a combination of one-year old and new French oak) is a fruit-dominated wine with the classic cassis intermixed with a touch of herbs, a slight notion of volatile acidity, and a spicy finish. The wine is full-bodied, ripe, but at the same time, elegant, particularly for a Greenock Creek wine."
Rating: 90 points

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