[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

The grapes for this wine are from the vineyard at the front of our cellar door located on Radford Road at Seppeltsfield, near Greenock, and were planted in 1989. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tonnes per acre and when picked are kept separate to produce a single estate wine. As with all our grapes they are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume sometimes produces a naturally occurring high alcohol, although this will depend on seasonal conditions.

The grapes are fermented in large, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and pressed through a basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through maturation and blended back together one week before bottling. The wine is racked into barrel to undergo natural MLF. The oak is all French shaved out seasoned second-hand hogsheads, with the better barrels being used for the pressings. The wine is left to mature in barrels for a total of 27 months and is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling. This wine contains the much sought after flavours of top Cabernets – mint, lavender, chocolate, berries and perfume – the perfect combination to produce an excellent example of this variety.


Greenock Creek

---

 

"This disgustingly vibrant, eager-to-get-on-with-it, perfumed and polished Cabernet seems like the best of Clare at first. It's slick and sinuous. Deadly. Very shiny shiny in the dark: a shockingly honest raven oil beauty. Next day it's not so completely Clare - it reminds me too of the exemplary Cabernet John Glaetzer found in a couple of Langhorne Creek vineyards for Wolf Blass' paramount reds thirty and forty years ago, but without so much of their minty eucalyptus. That's been replaced with another few coats of shiny black lacquer and a flavour that could be more of a feeling, like the feeling of fresh vanilla bean. It's like a dream where all you get is a fragrance, a flavour, and a feeling, and the figure is just starting to form and you're suddenly awake and feeling cheated and very thirsty. There's only one solution: more of this gorgeous, willowy, classical Cabernet. It'll be like totally deadly in about six years."

Phillip White

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Cabernet

Size:

750mL