2021 Basket Pressed Cabernet Sauvignon

Earthy and lifted with brambly fruits, cedar and thyme, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon shows classic Margaret River power and poise. Cellar-worthy and beautifully structured.

Production: 221 dozen

Colour: Garnet

Aroma: Beautifully lifted with currents, cedar and wood polish. Earthy, brooding and ever evolving into dark plum and hints of thyme. An age worthy wine showing all the hallmarks of a classic Margaret River Cabernet.

Palate: Elegance and finesse sum this wine up with Blackberry, red and black currents enveloped in savoury nori umami characters. Fine and present tannins give a line of purity and length with lingering flavours of liquorice, thyme and cedar. A delicious wine that will grow and develop over the next 10 to 15 years.

Vinification: After a cool season in the vineyard the grapes were harvested on the 10th of April the day before the remanence of cyclone Seroja dumped 30mm of rain on the vineyard. A tiny crop of 2.7 ton per hectare was well ripened and in perfect condition at harvest.

The fruit was open fermented, hand plunged for a total of 16 days on skins before being basket pressed. The wine was matured for 6 months in oak before being “Rack & Returned” where the wine is pumped out of oak the barrels are cleaned and the wine returned. It was then left to mature all precious 10 barrels worth for a further 12 months. All barrels made the blend comprising of 60% new fine grained French oak. Bottling was 14th November 2022 and the wine was bottle aged for 3 years before release. A beautiful elegantly styled Margaret River Cabernet with intensity and longevity.

Alcohol: 13.0%