Special museum release of our 2019 Cabernet Franc. Just 12 bottles available.
Colour: Deep Plum
Aroma: Raspberry lamingtons and underlying cardamom pods.
Palate: Swathes of fresh raspberries and red currents. Bright acidity and contoured tannins envelope the fruit giving a wine with delicate yet present structure. Judicial use of French oak adds a touch of vanillin biscuit notes on the finish.
Vinification – The grapes had picked in the cool of the morning then placed in open fermenters where the must was innoculated with a neutral yeast and fermentation began. The cap was hand plunged four times a day in the early stages of the ferment, to extract colour and tannin. After 10 days the wine was left on the skins for extended maturation for another 5 days. The free run juice was drained and the fermented grapes where basket pressed. The wine under-went a malolactic fermentation which softens the acid. Then the wine was racked to a mix of 50% new & 50% one and two year old French barriques and matured for 12 months. The Cabernet Franc was bottled in July 2019.
2019 Vintage Rating 8/10: The 2019 vintage started about 2 weeks later than the previous few years and had been cool – very different to the rest of the country. Yields have been lower. Lovely white wines have had time to develop delicate flavours while retaining natural acidity. A bit of mid-vintage rain refreshed the reds, then the fruit hung out there allowing for a long, slow ripening period. There was no Marri Flowers so netting of all varieties was necessary.
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