Tasting Note
Aroma
ClosureScrewcap
GrapeCabernet Sauvignon
Grape Variety100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Maturation
Oaked0
Palate
VarietalV_CABERNETSAUVIGNON
VinificationGrapes were hand-picked from Clarendon’s high country (220 metres). After destemming, the berries were sorted straight into open fermenters. The cold soak was four days, the wines were pumped over daily, and the minimum time on skins was eighteen days. The wine was then basket pressed, combining the resultant free run and light pressings; the heavier pressings were kept separate. Three rack-and-returns were conducted over eighteen months as the wine seasoned in a mixture of fine-grained Bordeaux-coopered barrels.
RegionMcLaren Vale - SA
Region CodeDSAMCLAREN
Region Notes
StateSA
Subregion
WinemakerChris Carpenter, Charlie Seppelt
Wine StyleRed (Full Bodied)
James Halliday
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97
2014/07/29
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion, July 2014
A 52/48% blend, 135 dozen made from the 41-year-old terraced vineyards of the Hickinbotham Vineyard, vinified separately, with 18 months in oak. The colour is magnificently deep, but vivid, purple-crimson, the bouquet exuding black fruits, the full-bodied palate with perfectly weighted fruit, oak and tannins, the length prodigious. Salut
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Huon Hooke
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0
2015/03/01
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, February/March 2015
The four 2012 reds which make up the inaugural release of this new label from an established vineyard are all sensational. This is serious cabernet. The colour is dense red-purple, the bouquet blackberry and smoky char-oak scented, and the palate profound and concentrated, dense and compact with powerfully arresting flavours and tannins. The finish is long and satisfying. A very impressive debut. Best drinking will be 2017-2040
Gary Walsh
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95
2014/08/05
The Wine Front, 5 August 2014
The Trueman Show: talk about a compelling debut. Vineyard planted in 1971. Blackcurrant, boysenberry, pencil and a flicker of mint/licorice, chocolate wrappers and montelimars. Medium bodied, dense and chewy, shot with ‘minerality’ and brooding appeal: the quality and volume of tannin here is exceptional. Length also. Significant wine. Would never have picked McLaren Vale, not that there’s anything wrong with McLaren Vale Cabernet, I hasten to add.
Gary Walsh
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95
2014/08/05
The Wine Front, 5 August 2014
The Trueman Show: talk about a compelling debut. Vineyard planted in 1971. Blackcurrant, boysenberry, pencil and a flicker of mint/licorice, chocolate wrappers and montelimars. Medium bodied, dense and chewy, shot with ‘minerality’ and brooding appeal: the quality and volume of tannin here is exceptional. Length also. Significant wine. Would never have picked McLaren Vale, not that there’s anything wrong with McLaren Vale Cabernet, I hasten to add.
