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2005 Clarendon Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Hickinbotham Clarendon
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WS 89
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2005 Clarendon Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Hickinbotham Clarendon

Producer: Clarendon Hills
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: Australia
Region: McLaren Vale

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92(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , September/October 2007

($75) Ruby-red. Slow-building, exotic bouquet of ripe cherry, blackcurrant, Cuban tobacco, violet and black pepper. Supple blackcurrant and bitter cherry flavors gain depth with air, taking a liqueur-like dark berry turn but maintaining focus. Youthfully firm tannins add grip to the impressively long, juicy finish. Plenty sweet and seductive now but I'd give this some time in bottle to loosen up.

89 Points | Wine Spectator
97 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon built its reputation on Bordeaux's Left Bank. Here, in the district of Medoc, the varietal is the key component of blended wines that also may include some Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and even Malbec and Petit Verdot. Moving slightly south, Cabernet Sauvignon meets Merlot in roughly equal proportions in the red wines of Graves. In both of these Bordeaux regions, the top bottles...
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