Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

The 2018 vintage in Margaret River was perhaps the best vintage in the modern commercial history of the region (i.e., since 1967). Most producers made their best wines in this year, and despite a string of extremely high-quality vintages that followed (2019 – cool, aromatic; 2020 – moderate to warm, great power and tannin structure; 2022 – too early to tell but whispers abound that it rivals 2018, certainly a warm year), it remains a standalone vintage in its outlay of powerful fruit and shape. The 2018 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon is the best made at the estate, and I say that ahead of my favored 2014 and 2012 vintages. Drink date: 2023-2053. Score – 97+. (Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, July 6, 2023)