Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Born from a year of scorching summer heat, complemented by a long cool season, to develop complete tannin ripeness, layered fruit with secondary earth and spice detail. Harking back to old-school classic cabernet characteristics of fresh tobacco and ripe cassis, this wine has a quiet intensity with surprising length and completeness. 750ml
CRANBERRY • FRESH TOBACCO • WILD BRAMBLE
Accolades
92 points, The Real Review
Good depth of red with a pretty rim of purple and aromas of slightly meaty, raspberry, rose and mulberry cabernet, the varietal fruit doing the work, the tannins fine and sandy and supporting a medium bodied framework. A smart and well-made cabernet that will drink well young and in the medium term.
91 points, Halliday Wine Companion
A fine-boned cabernet with dark fruit characters, malty inflections, cinnamon spice, sage leaf and briny elements in the roll call of descriptors. Sits on medium weight, a smudge of chewy tannin rolls through, flavoursome yet mellow with a general sense of freshness to finish. Not particularly complex, but the feel and restraint takes it a few pay grades up in life.
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Appearance: dark, ruby red, dark cherry edges
Aroma: red currant, cassis, mulberry, dark chocolate, cinnamon stick, fresh tobacco, dark earth, forest floor, dried sage, violets, raspberry cane, red rose petal, bramble
Palate: red and black currant, black cherry, dark moist earth, tar, tight fine-grained tannins, dark toasted baking spice finish, chewy, sinewy, lithe, long, refined structure carrying fruit to a firm, focused finish, cured black olives, smoked bresaola
Cool, wet winter with a 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, gave lower yields, setting fruit of small size and great concentration. A cool autumn ensued, allowing slow development of flavours and aromatics, with the longer hang time giving dense complete yet fine tannins.
This was a cool vintage, which allowed slow development of complex characters and beautiful acidities within the grapes. Although the season was wild with erratic weather, the wines are stunning cool climate expressions of their varieties.
The fruit was selectively harvested picked in mid-April when optimum ripeness was reached. The fruit was destemmed into a closed top fermenter, draining juice at the crusher to concentrate the must. After several days cold soaking, the must was allowed to warm and fermented with a selected yeast being pumped over 1-3 times daily. A further week of post ferment maceration occurred to develop the complete tannin structure, and the tanks was pressed after 20 days on skins utilising a tank press with a basket press program minimising maceration. The wine was gently drained to French Oak barrique and Hogshead (12% new) and aged for 14 months before being bottled unfined with minimal filtration.
- Vintage 2022
- Alcohol 13.7%
- Vineyard 100% Estate Grown
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Bottling date August 2023
- Region Great Southern, Western Australia
- Sub-region Porongurup
- Residual sugar 0.08 g/l
- pH 3.67
- Acidity 5.7 g/l
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