Vasse Felix Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon-Malbec 2015
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The Tom Cullity descends from these original vines and represents the pinnacle of Vasse Felix.The palate is vibrant with mouth-watering cranberry freshness and while light, is juicy, precise, and balanced with remarkable fine-grained tannins. Long cassis and cherry pip flavored tannins create a dry and fine finish. A significant Cabernet of uniquely delicate proportions.
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The third vintage of Tom Cullity is the best to date. This premium bottling offers threads of graphite, currants, black olives, nori, tomato leaf and roasted green peppers. These flavors, along with spicy French oak, are tightly woven with fine chalky tannins. Power and elegance share the limelight, and linearity trumps roundness and richness. Cellar through 2039.
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James Suckling
The 2015 Cullity is all about finesse and power with subtle aromas and flavors of currants, plums and autumnal leaves. Full body and firm, chewy tannins that give the wine length and freshness. Just keeps on growing on the palate. Better after 2022, but already a gem to taste. Drink in 2022 and onwards. Screw cap.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Made with 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Malbec and 2% Petit Verdot, this had a 100% wild ferment with 100% whole berry and was matured in French oak for 16 months (51% new). The has the lowest alcohol of all the Tom Cullitys, at 14% alcohol (the others are mainly 14.5%). The 2015 Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec was a very closed and restrained iteration of this wine on release, and each year that I look at it, I wonder whether or not this will be the year that it emerges. It seems that it is on its way. You get blue and black fruits, licorice, nori (a consistent character for me), resin, lavender/potpourri and black peppercorns.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2015 Vasse Felix Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon is about elegance. TASTING NOTES: This wine is stylish, bright, and well balanced. Pair its red currant and savory spice aromas and flavors with a mildly-seasoned oven-baked pork roast. (Tasted: September 24, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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The higher proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon comes through with an extra depth of blackcurrant and leaf character on the palate. Clean, fresh and lively, there is great lift here. Elegant, with lots of purity, this is not a blockbuster style, but rather a refined, mid-term blend with wide appeal.
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Shows power and intensity to the fresh, juicy black cherry and plum flavors, with notes of black licorice, loam, toasted herb, black tea and orange zest on a frame of dense, muscular tannins. Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. Drink now through 2033.
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Established in 1967 by regional pioneer Dr Tom Cullity, Vasse Felix is Margaret River's founding wine estate. Pristine isolation, ancient lands and twin oceans make Margaret River a wine paradise and one of the world’s greatest environments to grow ultra-premium Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. These varieties, alongside Shiraz and Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends are the primary focus at Vasse Felix. All wines are grown in Vasse Felix’s four Margaret River vineyards then vinified and bottled within the modern winery, situated at the Home Vineyard overlooking the Wilyabrup Brook. The Vasse Felix Cellar Door - also located at the Home Vineyard - is renowned. Featuring a tasting room, wine lounge, art gallery, wine museum and one of Australia's most acclaimed restaurants, visitors are welcomed from all around the world, eager for the ultimate Vasse Felix experience.
There are many things that make Vasse Felix the special place it is: the incredible environment and climate of Margaret River, their secure family ownership, their treasured heritage, and their priceless vineyards. But above all, it's the dedication of the entire team to continue Dr Cullity's original aim for Vasse Felix: "to make the best possible wine".
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
Home to some of Australia’s most elegant and long-lived red and white wines, Margaret River is situated in the farthest reaches of Western Australia. Relatively warm and dry, the region is cooled by breezes from the Indian Ocean. Margaret River takes some inspiration from Bordeaux, producing top-quality Cabernet Sauvignons and Bordeaux Blends with firm structure, mouthwatering acidity, balanced alcohol and notes of herbs and spice. For white wines, refreshing blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon as well as complex, age-worthy Chardonnays are regional specialties.