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NOTES
Howard Park Wines has a very simple mantra when it comes to the production of its wines - premium wine can only come from excellent fruit. Since its foundation Howard Park has held the belief that each variety is best suited to particular climates and soil types within the two premium wine regions of Margaret River and the Great Southern. Over the past 20 years, Howard Park has exerted considerable effort into defining and classifying the vineyards in these two regions by variety to ensure the quality levels demanded are continually upheld and improved. We believe this approach ensures that each bottle of Howard Park wine is the finest expression from these two regions and continues to over deliver on your expectations.
TASTING NOTES
The 2007 Scotsdale Cabernet Sauvignon is a crimson red wine of medium density with a purple rim.
The hallmark of Mt Barker Cabernet Sauvignon from a great year is concentration, elegance and complexity in both the bouquet and palate. This wine displays blackberry and mulberry fruits with forest floor like herbal aromas so typical of top Mt Barker Cabernet. There are chocolate and mocha characters supporting the clean fruit. The palate is dense and concentrated yet soft and elegant with focussed sweet fruit flavours. There are dark chocolate and dark berries on the palate of rare power and intensity. A firm structure gives backbone to the plush fruit and mouthfilling tannins are silky and supple. Aging will benefit this wine full of youthful potential.
OTHER REVIEWS
Deep, dark and inky; a complex black olive bouquet, with a very rich, powerful and heady mix of cassis, cedar and a little violet thrown in for good measure; the oak merely plays a supporting role; generous, firm and very long. To 2018. 95 Points, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010
Beautiful,sweet fruit, good balance and even flow of flavours across the palate. 93 Points, Tony Keys, The KROW (The Key Review of Wines) - 01-08-2009
We return to sharp varietal definition in two contrasting Howard Park wines from individual vineyards in Western Australia?s Great Southern and Margaret River regions. The Great Southern wine presents ripe-berry flavours ? in a lovely interplay with classy oak ?without the leafy notes (usually indicative of a cool season)?Scotsdale features very intense, very young flavours and taut, elegant structure. These Howard Park cabernets are strong, characterful wines needing a few more years bottle age to reveal their best. Chris Shanahan, The Canberra Times - 17-07-2009
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