Established in 1973 by Denis and Tricia Horgan, Leeuwin Estate is one of Margaret River’s founding wineries and helped define fine wine in Western Australia, with early encouragement from Robert Mondavi and a long-standing reputation for producing benchmark Cabernet.

From Margaret River, one of Australia’s premier maritime wine regions, the Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon draws on the area’s coastal influence and long growing season to deliver both concentration and finesse. Leeuwin’s Art Series wines have become iconic expressions of the region and the estate’s signature wines.

Grapes for the 2022 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon were hand harvested, de-stemmed and each parcel was individually fermented in stainless steel tanks with three-times-daily pump overs to extract colour and flavour. The wine was then aged for nine months in 50% new French oak. The individual parcels were then blended together and aged an additional 13 months in French barriques. A complex nose of dark cherry, boysenberry, and currant at the core, with elegant floral notes of violet and lavender. The nose finishes with a savoury edge of oregano, dried sage, cardamon and tobacco leaf. On the palate the fruit is mirrored from the nose with vibrant natural acidity, and additional savoury notes of black olive, vanilla bean and damp earth. The tannins are tight knit and structured with a long complex finish.

A beautiful match for herb-crusted lamb rack, dry-aged ribeye, or venison with a red wine jus.

“The 2022 Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon hails from a warm and dry vintage in Margaret River, one that is showing to be a very high-quality Cabernet vintage. The palate shows a pure core of raspberry and blood orange, nori and raw cocoa, even chinotto-esque in its leanings, with bramble and forest floor, graphite and cracked fennel seed. This is a velvety, tightly controlled, compact and excellent wine. The oak shows ever so slightly on the nose, in the form of malt biscuit and aniseed. This will be quickly subsumed by the fruit in a short time. The wine will be released April/May 2025.”
97+ points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate, April 2025

“Still curled up but crystalline fruit visible under good-quality oak. Salt-baked earth, sea breeze, nori, red berries, violets and hibiscus blossom. Cocoa dust, redcurrant and boysenberry. Exquisitely perfumed and singing with pure vineyard expression. An insane fruit intensity rings in the mouth and soaks right down to the toes. Delicate rosella and slight aniseed spice. Expansive and poetic, offering a lingering brightness. 99% Cabernet Sauvignon with 1% Malbec, average vine age 40 years, Houghton clone, aged 22 months in 225-litre Bordeaux oak.”
96 points, Cassandra Charlick, Decanter, August 2025