Condition: Cellared
Buyers premium: 17.50%
Lot Number: 0001-2477319
Part of Sale: Grays Fine Wine ~ Featuring Leeuwin Art Series
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The “Art Series” represents Leeuwin’s most opulent & ageworthy wines from each vintage. They are identified with paintings commissioned from leading contemporary Australian artists.
The perfumed perfection of the bouquet and the wonders of the palate, with its ever-shifting mosaic of white stone fruit, rock melon, grapefruit, Granny Smith apple and custard apple reign supreme. Oak? Yes, it's there, although subtle. Acidity? Yes, the giver of life now and into the future. - James Halliday
Classical pear skin, lime and white peach fruit spectrum defines the nose, amidst sweeter notes of nougat, sesame brittle and brioche. It is concentrated and complex with subtle fragrant jasmine and savoury flint and wet stone. A tightly directed palate, yet with enviable length. Woven layers of lemon curd, cut lime and grapefruit pith penetrate throughout the palate with a distinctive mineral thread. Delicate oak use presents gentle complexing notes of cinnamon, nutmeg and hazelnuts.
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Halliday Wine Companion
Leeuwin Estate, one of the founding wineries of the now famous Margaret River district, consistently produces wines that rank with the world's finest.
In 1972, following an extensive search for the area most suitable to produce the best varietal wines in Australia, legendary American winemaker, Robert Mondavi, identified the future site of the Leeuwin vineyard.
Originally a cattle farm, Leeuwin Estate evolved, under the direction of Denis and Tricia Horgan, with Robert Mondavi acting as consultant and mentor.
A nursery was planted in 1974 and the initial vineyards were deep-ploughed, deep-ripped, emptied of stone, planned, pegged, measured, marked and eventually planted by hand over a five year period from 1975.
Featuring state-of-the art facilities, the winery building was opened in 1978, celebrating with a trial vintage. Leeuwin enjoyed its first commercial vintage in 1979, and was thrust into the international spotlight when Decanter Magazine gave its highest recommendation to the 1980 "Art Series" Chardonnay in an international blind tasting.
Maintaining a team of highly skilled and dedicated winemakers, and now under the direction of two generations of the founding family, Leeuwin now exports to over 30 countries.
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C.C - Wishart QLD | 25/11/2019 3.25.53 PM AEDT | AU $384 | 1 | 1 |
C.K - Rocklea QLD | 25/11/2019 8.17.41 PM AEDT | AU $379 | 1 | 0 |
K.E - NORTHBRIDGE WA | 25/11/2019 7.03.02 PM AEDT | AU $359 | 1 | 0 |
D.J - St Kilda VIC | 25/11/2019 2.51.39 PM AEDT | AU $349 | 1 | 0 |
X.Z - Castle Cove NSW | 24/11/2019 5.29.38 PM AEDT | AU $344 | 1 | 0 |
A.S - Mullaloo WA | 23/11/2019 10.40.28 PM AEDT | AU $344 | 1 | 0 |
R.A - Elsternwick VIC | 22/11/2019 7.10.37 PM AEDT | AU $339 | 1 | 0 |
D.O - Kew VIC | 22/11/2019 4.05.29 PM AEDT | AU $339 | 1 | 0 |
T.A - South Yarra VIC | 22/11/2019 10.18.46 AM AEDT | AU $309 | 1 | 0 |
S.H - Palmyra WA | 22/11/2019 1.06.21 PM AEDT | AU $244 | 1 | 0 |
D.S - Mitcham VIC | 22/11/2019 11.38.54 AM AEDT | AU $169 | 1 | 0 |
D.A - East Perth WA | 22/11/2019 10.55.44 AM AEDT | AU $164 | 1 | 0 |
P.G - MANILLA NSW | 22/11/2019 10.35.38 AM AEDT | AU $154 | 1 | 0 |
C.S - Hurstville NSW | 22/11/2019 9.37.08 AM AEDT | AU $144 | 1 | 0 |
B.C - BROADWATER WA | 22/11/2019 9.54.59 AM AEDT | AU $129 | 1 | 0 |
f.C - Sydney NSW | 22/11/2019 9.37.27 AM AEDT | AU $124 | 1 | 0 |
L.d - Floreat WA | 22/11/2019 9.25.10 AM AEDT | AU $79 | 1 | 0 |
R.Y - Bankstown NSW | 21/11/2019 11.40.56 PM AEDT | AU $69 | 1 | 0 |
R.P - Malvern East VIC | 21/11/2019 11.12.54 PM AEDT | AU $19 | 1 | 0 |
g.l - coopers plains QLD | 21/11/2019 11.04.27 PM AEDT | AU $14 | 1 | 0 |
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