A single vineyard. Destemmed, 50% to whole berries. Wild fermented across a 3 week maceration. Raised in French barriques (40% new) for 18 mths. Unfined/filtered. Delicious and approachable already, a core of sweet blackcurrant fruit and milk chocolate oak, the imminent appeal. Full bodied, poised and showy. I look forward to tasting this after another 5 years and onwards for a decade or more, by which time the primary fruit will have subsided and savoury complexities revealed.
92 points Ned Goodwin MW winecompanion.com.au
The grapes for The Cabernet Sauvignon are sourced from 30+ year old vines in Langhorne Creek located on true ‘floodplain’ soils.
Maturation wass in 50% new and 25% one and two year old French barriques over a period of 20 months.