"Deep, bright, youthful red/purple colour with a lifted fragrance recalling violets and both red and darker fruits, a touch of briar and some tomato bush. It's full-bodied and softly fleshy, chewy-textured and tight-packed, with lots of extract and density. There's a trace of regional peatiness. Very good wine, and it will repay cellaring." 95 points Huon Hooke.

"From Block 3 of the vineyard that Xanadu knows like the back of its hand. Static fermented, 28 days post-ferment maceration, matured for 14 months in French barriques (40% new). Combines elegance with length, intensity and balance. Blackcurrant, earth, black olive and cabernet tannins all chime in on the heavy lifting - this at 14% alcohol tells it all." 95 points James Halliday.

"No, I don’t have the Xanadu Reserve Cabernet 2015, should you ask.
Perfume of mint, flowers, along with that ‘wet cement’ thing some MR Cabs show. A mix of forest berries and coffee, fine grained tannin, shape and length, balanced acidity. Grippy and almost sappy in the finish. Finesse, rather than power. Good at its game." 94 points Gary Walsh.