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[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

'This is an amazing rarity, a Cabernet of this lissom build with such compressed intensity.' - Phillip White

 

"The grapes for this wine are picked from a single estate vineyard on our Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga near Greenock. The vines are around 80 years old, and this is our smallest vineyard. The vines crop at 1.0 to 1.5 tonnes per acre and the grapes are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume can produce a naturally occurring high alcohol, although this will depend on seasonal conditions.

Following picking 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. Following primary fermentation the wine is racked into barrel to undergo natural MLF. The wine is left to mature in barrels (all new French hogsheads) for a total of 36 months and then bottled. The wine is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling, and is then left in bottle to mature for another 24 months. This therefore means that the wine has been in barrel or bottle for in excess of five years prior to its release. This tiny vineyard of century old vines produces a wine of formidable structure with an intense Cabernet style of mixed fruits and berries." Greenock Creek

 

'Out the back of that freshly-painted, baked-and-peeled capsicum family of aromas it's acrid and sharp, like hemp. Burlap sacks in summer. Take a good schlück and all that is given flesh of the most delicate yet intense crème de cassis form. This is an amazing rarity, a Cabernet of this lissom build with such compressed intensity. It will take years to convince some that this is indeed a wine of royal elegance as much as provenance. By which time it will be well beyond their reach. The top floor is open to the sky and it's all prickly summer backroad, from everlasting flowers through lavendar to wormwood, and then the sorts of tiny, beautifully aromatic shavings of nature somebody like Guerlain would work into a perfume. Violets. Ylang ylang. Black lilies. Perfection.' - Phillip White

 


Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Cabernet
Size:
750mL

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$300.00

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