Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
RASPBERRY CANE • RED CURRANT • BAY LEAF
Our Single Vineyard range comes from estate fruit that makes beautifully accessible wines to drink now. The '21 Cabernet Sauvignon delivers beautiful acidities and ripe, juicy fruit with a fine, complete tannin structure. Thirteen months in barrel; bottled August 2021; released November 2021. 750ml.
Accolades
93 points, Halliday Wine Companion
Lush and easy-drinking style loaded with dark cherry, choc-berry and dried herb elements. It's pretty in perfume, bright and flavoursome to taste with a lift of briny minerally acidity refreshing the palate with each sip. Easy charm here, beautifully pitched at medium weight and succulent overall. Lovely drink.
92 points, Wine Pilot
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Appearance: deep dark magenta, purple edges
Aroma: dark ripe cassis, black currant, briar, blackberry, leafy bramble, dark earth; touch of tar and cinnamon; juicy, violet, lavender purple flower lift; currant
Palate: dark juicy mulberry, black currant, cassis; dark chocolate, black cherry; juicy firm fine, long, chewy talcum tannins; excellent length; touch of bittersweet chocolate on the end; old school classic Bordeaux hazelnut, almond kernel, peacock feather
Cool wet winter after two years of drought conditions with very high rainfall followed by a warm to hot and dry summer. The vines grew quickly developing excellent canopies. Delayed bud burst which affected flowering and gave lower yields. Good tannin ripeness (physiological ripeness) with deep colours in red grapes. This was a near perfect vintage which allowed slow development of complex characters within the grapes, dry relative disease-free ripening conditions giving beautiful acidities, ripe juicy fruit with fine complete tannin structures.
Harvest was done in early April by selective machine maximising whole berries and minimizing juicing to allow the fruit to arrive in pristine condition. The grapes were destemmed into a closed top fermenter, fermented for eighteen days with up to three pump overs per day to give gentle extraction. The wine was drained off with some pressings added back to build texture and length, with the resulting wine aged in one year and older French oak 300L hogsheads on lees for 12 months; blended and bottled the following August.
- Vintage 2021
- Alcohol 14.2%
- Vineyard 100% Estate Grown
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Bottling date August 2021
- Region Great Southern, Western Australia
- Sub-region Porongurup
- Residual sugar 0.07 g/l
- pH 3.65
- Acidity 6.6 g/l
