2020 Deep Woods Estate Single Vineyard Cabernet Malbec

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This 2020 Cabernet Malbec Single Vineyard is brooding and enticing thanks to inky, violet, blackcurrant and dried herb aromas well matched to quality oak. Followed by a supple, sweet palate that is fleshy, silky and mouth-filling with lashings of dark berry and liquorice fruit. Graceful tannins make the wine deliciously approachable to enjoy young, although it will also hold for the next five years. Drink 2022 - 2028.
91 Points
Angus Hughson - Antonio Galloni's Vinous (June 2022)

Cabernet with 10% malbec. "We go to-getherr like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong"(Grease, in case you were wondering)... like an earworm I can't eradicate (and actually, nor do I want to), these 2 have spent a long time trying to get together; unlikely bedfellows perhaps, blocked by the reliable and often uneventful merlot, but they finally find their way back. For all the hyperbole, this is a sensational wine, impossibly intense and saturated with flavour, and the volume is boosted in 2020. Decant it, because the frisky malbec needs the oxygen to calm it down. It'll live an age, though. Drink by 2037.
96 Points
Erin Larkin - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion (January 2022)

The fruit for this 2020 Single Vineyard Cabernet Malbec was sourced from the Deep Woods Home Block Vineyard, up in the Yallingup Hills, planted in 1985. It is inky, pure and concentrated and is framed by such succulent tannins that it becomes difficult (and immaterial) to attempt to define where the fruit ends and the tannins start. It is seamless. While this wine drinks beautifully in its youth (and it does... it is hard to see how any bottles will escape being scoffed in the short term), patience is recommended—it will surely evolve and blossom over the decades. Drink 2022 - 2037.
96 Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (July 2022)