GRAPE VARIETY: | Cabernet Sauvignon |
VINTAGE: | 2022 |
REGION: | 100% One Tree Hill |
ANALYSIS: | 14.5% Alcohol |
CELLAR POTENTIAL: | This wine is approachable upon release, but will benefit with carefully cellaring between 8-12 years |
COLOUR: | Purple coloured intensity, with a purple to red hue. |
BOUQUET: | This Cabernet Sauvignon displays enticing aromas of plums, cinnamon , and blackcurrants. |
PALATE: | Flavoursome and layered palate of spice, dark berry fruits, blackcurrants, plums and silky tannins. |
VINEYARD & VITICULTURE: | Sourced from a single vineyard in Northern One Tree Hill, with an average yield of 2.0 tonne per acre. |
WINEMAKING: | Crushed and destemmed to open top fermenters, where cooling was employed throughout the fermentation between 18-25oC. There was two pump overs and one hand plunge every day to optimise flavour, colour and tannin extraction. The primary fermentation was 7-10 days, a further 8 weeks of extended maceration was employed for further extraction of flavour, colour and tannin. After extended maceration, the fermented wine was then gently Basket Pressed to a settling tank for 2 days, where it was then racked to older oak barrels to undergo Malolactic fermentation. |
STORAGE/MATURATION: | 12 months in new and seasoned French oak Hogheads. |