Bleasdale Tasting Notes
The 2005 vintage has produced a wine stylistically different to that of previous years with powerful flavours of blackberries, dark cherries and violets integrating beautifully with the very subtle French oak characters and leading to a delightfully soft, round palate with pleasing sweet fruit richness. Elegant and with silky tannins the blend is a delight to enjoy either in its youth or with quality cellaring up until around the year 2012.
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Wine Advocate
The winery's flagship is the 2005 Frank Potts. It is a blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, with the balance Petit Verdot and Merlot and was aged for 15 months in new and used French and American oak This purple-colored wine exhibits an expressive nose of plum, black currant, black cherry and blackberry. It is more structured than the other wines in the portfolio but the tannins are ripe, the fruit sweet, and there is a lengthy, fruit-filled finish. It will evolve for 2-3 years and drink well through 2020. —Jay Miller, 90 points
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Wine Enthusiast
There's plenty of vanillin and cedary oak in this wine, but it's easily balanced by impressive levels of cassis and blackberry fruit. The texture in the mouth is creamy and supple, and the finish is long and vanilla-laden but silky, without any harsh wood tannins. The blend is 89% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Malbec, with bits of Petit Verdot and Merlot. —Joe Czerwinski, 90 points
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