2020 Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon Margaret River Australia 750 ml

When Xanadu’s 2016 Cabernet won the Jimmy Watson Trophy—one of Australia’s most prestigious wine awards, akin to being named Wine Spectator’s #1 Wine in the US—it shot up the most-wanted lists of every collector Down Under. Bottles flew off the shelves. It was tough to find their Cabs in Australian wine shops, let alone in the US. 

Four years later, Xanadu is still hard to find stateside. But since we’ve been on board with Xanadu since well before their stunning Jimmy Watson win, we always get a share—and we’re now pleased to bring you the stellar 95-point 2020 vintage. 

“Perfumed, pure and very pretty. The three 'p's' for success,” raved James Halliday’s Wine Companion in its review. “Tasted alongside wines 3+ times the price of this and it still held its own,” they added.  

Margaret River is the epicenter of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon, and Wine Spectator has said that the region’s best Cabs occupy “the top rank in the world.” Abutting the Indian and Southern Oceans, the region’s climate is as enticing to winemakers as it is to surfers and sun-bronzed tourists. The ample sunlight, cool sea breezes, and dry ripening seasons of Margaret River help produce grapes with a fine-tannin structure and nurture a complexity that’s often likened to Bordeaux wines.

Xanadu has been in Margaret River since its early days as a wine region. Dr. John Lagan and his wife Eithne planted their first Cabernet Sauvignon and Sémillon near the coast in 1977. Today, the property has over 200 acres of vines growing in its well-drained, gravelly soils. Acquired by the Rathbone family in 2005, it has stayed family-owned and obsessively quality-focused, and it shows in their inspired Cabernets.