[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Philip White 94+++ Points!
"Here's the blueberries and that Clare Valley kalamata juice back again, serpentine and shiny. To sniff, it seems more like 14.5 or 15.5% - much riper than that real alcohol number would indicate - with jellied fruits like the Apricot Block. But typical of Greenock Cabernet, it then throws out a handful of juniper berries to tighten and pucker and add tannin and turn it back toward the real number. Not many vineyards can do that. With lots of air, you might begin to see blackberries. Mulberries. Ripe blackcurrants. After a day or two, it takes on a hearty suet-rich fruitcake/nutty panforte complexity. As the primary fruits subside with the passage of the days, the intense turnip greens and reduced spinach characters we find in other vintages begin to emerge - the fruits had covered them. The palate is lithe and sinuous at times; at others it's more fleshy and powdered with gentle tannins. And now, after seven days, it's a gentle, smooth, blessing of a drink, with the sort of calmly caressing unction you'll find only in wines with an extra zero on the end of the price. Away back at the beginning, I thought this was a 92+ sort of a Cabernet. Wrong again.."
Phillip White, Sep 2014

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Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Cabernet

Size:

750mL