[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

94+++ POINTS - PHILIP WHITE!   

 

"Three years older as a wine, and many years older as a vineyard, Roennfeldt's Cabernet shares much of its perky personality with the home block Cabernet this release, in spite of the ease of 2010 compared to the ornery 2007. But take all those pretties in the 2010 Cabernet review above, and add mint and more lavendar, a lot more blueberries " dig 'em out of a Lindt chocolate - and you get something approxi-mating this. It has a little extra coffee and cedary lignite, and some pretty mocha dusting, and then you can't work out whether it's a lighter wine, or a denser one. I think it's much lighter. More willowy and slender. I know that doesn't make sense, but this wine does seem to have all that wonder entrapped in the 2010 Cabernet above but less of it stretched over a much lighter, more open frame. It reminds me of Ben Lexcen's mantra: "If it won't break, it's too heavy." It's like comparing the railway lines of the 6.5 litre 1927 Bentley chassis to the delicate but taut DType Jag spaceframe 27 years later. Well, not quite. The '10 Cabernet's not 6.5 litres. Cut it back to the 3 litre Bentley. You get my drift. Start looking in five years. Don't get your scarf tangled in the spokes." -  Philip White

 

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Cabernet

Size:

750mL