Woodlands Margaret Cabernet Blend 2005 Non Vintage baking spices and cedar set

baking spices and cedar set against a backdrop of black cherries and black olives

Here too the wood treatment is all but invisible and does not interfere with the transparency of the ripe yet cool and ultra-pure nose of red pinot fruit where the mineral influence is quite prominent

A different wine to the (relatively) throaty 2015

Full bodied

Woodlands Margaret Cabernet Blend 2005 Non Vintage baking spices and cedar setA brilliantly elegant, fine and stylish cabernet blend with a structure and texture more akin to a fine Pauillac. Its slightly meaty aromas of liqueur cherries, cassis, earthy minerals and cedar vanilla oak have almost a pinot like musky, heady quality. Smooth and seamless, it's long and luscious, with a lavish array of dark berries, plums and cherries backed by lightly smoky cedar dark chocolate oak and framed by fine grained and chalky tannins.