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Vasse Felix Heytesbury Cabernet Blend 2000
Very ripe, very generous and almost exaggerated, this powerful young wine is admirable for its depth and strength of fruit and muscular tannin, but lacks the fineness and charm it might have produced if harvested earlier. It’s smoky, spirity and oaky, with dense plum and cassis fruit and meaty complexity. Its fruit is a little cooked, its oak a little heavy and its tannins too blocky. Contrived, not natural.
Vintage
2000
Peak years to drink
2005 - 2008
Jeremy's score
90 / 100
Seal type
Cork
Vasse Felix Heytesbury Cabernet Blend
Margaret River
Price Range at Release: $50-$99
Vintage: 2012
Alc %: 14.5
$ Rel: 90
Very ripe, very generous and almost exaggerated, this powerful young wine is admirable for its depth and strength of fruit and muscular tannin, but lacks the fineness and charm it might have produced if harvested earlier. It's smoky, spirity and oaky, with dense plum and cassis fruit and meaty complexity. Its fruit is a little cooked, its oak a little heavy and its tannins too blocky. Contrived, not natural.
Last Date Tasted: 20/05/2015
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Cellar
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Drink Now
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Maybe Too Old
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Vintage
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Score/100
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Score/20
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Year To Drink
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2012
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95 | 18.7 | 2024-2032+  |
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2011
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95 | 18.6 | 2023-2031 |
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2010
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92 | 17.8 | 2022-2030 |
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2009
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95 | 18.8 | 2021-2029+ |
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2007
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95 | 18.8 | 2019-2027+ |
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2005
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93 | 18.0 | 2013-2017  |
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2004
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95 | 18.7 | 2012-2016 |
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2003
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95 | 18.8 | 2015-2023 |
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2002
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87 | 16.0 | 2004-2007+ |
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2001
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91 | 17.6 | 2006-2009+ |
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2000
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90 | 17.3 | 2005-2008 |
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1999
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91 | 17.6 | 2004-2007 |
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1998
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89 | 16.8 | 2003-2006 |
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1997
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93 | 18.2 | 2005-2009 |
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1996
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89 | 16.7 | 2002-2008 |
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1995
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94 | 18.4 | 2003-2007+ |
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Winery
Vasse Felix
Vasse Felix is one of the Margaret River region's oldest and leading wine makers. It's a polished operation, with a simple hierarchy of wines that typically meet all expectations with intense, deeply flavoured and finely assembled expressions of what this region does best. The premier Heytesbury wines continue to evolve stature and longevity. There's much about the style and composition of recent releases of Heytesbury Chardonnay that winemakers all over Australia are trying to achieve with this variety today, in what has been a desperate search for elegance and tightness at the expense of just about everything else. Virginia Willcock deserves huge credit for retaining the inherent depth and purity of Margaret River fruit, while handsomely delivering the kind of balance and finesse others are still seeking. Along with the Heytesbury blend, the red collection has also shifted gear into a more elegant, refined space.
Chief Executive(s):
Paul Holmes a Court
Winemaker:
Virginia Willcock
Viticulturist:
Bart Molony
Production Dozen:
15000
Tonnes Processed:
2000
Address:
Caves Road (Cnr Tom Cullity Drive) , Cowaramup , Margaret River , Western Australia 6284 Australia
Cellar Door Open Hours:
7 days, 10am - 5pm
Principal Wine Region:
Margaret River
Telephone:
(08) 9756 5000
Facsimile:
(08) 9755 5425
Website:
Email:
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